10-10-2018, 10:12 PM
(10-10-2018, 10:26 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-10-2018, 07:17 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: What if the liberals and the nationalists strike a deal somehow? This would probably be the best outcome, and it is possible if pragmatic Xer leaders replace boomers soon enough. In this case, the extremists on both sides - SJWs and identitarian will be purged, while moderate liberals and moderate nationalists will cooperate, until there is little difference between them in the 2040s.
That still fails to address critical issues like addressing global warming (which affects profits) and inequality (that effects accumulated wealth). The mushy-middle has never addressed hard issues, and getting them into a Kumbaya Circle isn't likely to change that one iota. Instead, assume that the spineless get replaced by politicians with carbon-fiber spines, who have no problem purging everything and everyone. Once that starts, the slumbering many will awaken in a hurry, and some real progress may be possible.
Where that leads is still an open issue.
The latter part of a Crisis defines what is possible and what is not in the gollo0wing 1T years. Fascism could not survive the whirlwind of WWII that it sowed. What remained of European aristocracy was going to be eliminated or rendered irrelevant. Extreme nationalism that sated itself in snipping pieces of territory out of neighboring or near-neighboring countries would become unwelcome. Colonial adventures would become irrelevant.
Boomers are little like Millennials even if they share common values. Those two generations will see things very differently, finding disparate solutions to the same problems. The older generations have assumed that Millennial adults would be pliant and passive... and they think wrong.
Silent, Boom, and to an extent X politics have become stale... and it will be up to Millennial adults to reshape politics. That generation will have the numbers if not the savvy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.