02-16-2017, 10:41 AM
(02-15-2017, 08:29 PM)Odin Wrote: I had a realization today about Trump, he's a sort of fun-house mirror bizarro Nixon. It's as if in this 4T we are revisiting themes and symbols that had been lying dormant since the 2T and are suddenly erupting again. Black militancy, the Democratic Party tearing itself apart, a Republican running on "law and order", etc...
This is something of the nature of the 4T, IMO, it is the culmination of the forces set in motion during the previous 2T. Labor militancy, the Progressive movement's reform, eugenics, the emergence of the US as a Great Power involved outside its hemisphere from the Spanish-American War on, etc. All of these things started in the 2T and reached a head in the 4T with the Great Depression/WWII. Abolitionism and early industrialization before the Civil War followed the same pattern.
Mike did some stuff on this before.
I regret not being able to participate as fully in this conversation recently as I would like, my workload has increased dramatically (several programmers quit at work, and I am the only one left), and my spare time is spent studying for my next interview.
Oh, and roughly 80% of German casualties were suffered on the Eastern Front. Large Communist movements existed in France, Italy, and other places in Western Europe during that period. Had the US not intervened, the Red Army probably would have pushed through to the Channel.