"Climax" year of each turning

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-02-2020, 07:56 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Regarding this 4T.....

Nine eleven briefly brought the USA together; people were uniting against an attack from without.  But people came together for only one particular issue-terrorism.  

The underlying culture wars had not been resolved; people were distracted from them for a short time.

BTW, I have to say that it is too early to determine the Crisis Climax.  For all we know there could be a nuclear armageddon next year.  We won't be able to say for sure what the Climax is until we begin the transition into 1T.

While we were united for a bit, there was shortly the ‘cut and run’ against ’stay the course’ debate.  We were almost refighting the Vietnam War, asking if we should have fought it to a conclusion or if it was hopeless.  The real question was if we should have tried to change the culture by force.  The result was a real reluctance to put troops on the ground.

If the central crisis issue is the bug, the climax will involve a vaccine or effective therapy.  But that by most accounts is far enough away to convert most to policy that is scientific, that you can’t solve problems by ignoring them, and should cure at least for a time the political fantasy world that Fox is so instrumental in creating.  It will give Democrats the White House and possibly the Congress for a time.  I think the Republican Party will be thoroughly discredited.  With the blues in control they might be able to implement the blue agenda.

If a big agenda item is correcting the mistakes Trump made, I hope for once there is lots of overcorrection.  If we needed good healthcare, perhaps we could get great healthcare.  If we needed a willingness to solve problems, let’s solve problems.