"Climax" year of each turning

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-16-2020, 10:30 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: As for the whole "progressivism is the way to go thing" for lack of a better term, you'll find the Boomers on here, and in particular the Blue ones, are blind to the fact that what is and is not progressive is determined after the fact.  History is after all written by the victors.

I would counter that the arrow of progress is real.  The debate between the two factions goes on through the unraveling and early crisis.  What the crises are is set long before the history books are written.  The conservatives just aren't thrilled to admit they are clinging to past privilege when they were wrong to do so.  Kings, slaves, and expansionist fascists had to go.  The government had to regulate the economy.  Science counts.  Clinging to the way things were has its limits.