09-21-2020, 11:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2020, 11:44 PM by Eric the Green.)
It's a good song; I know it well. Right now though, the tribalists and the apologists and apostles of greed are in the driver's seat, and are likely to create a supreme court that will keep them able to squash the WEIRD and all the advanced versions of it such as green and new age weirdness. Biden may win, and the Democrats may take the senate, but will they be ruthless enough for the fight before then, and after then?
I am not so sure we will make progress in this 4T, or make it through this crisis and remove some of the problems. It looks to me like the same old stalemate and decay for another 30 years, unless the Democrats suddenly grow a backbone and realize that we are indeed in a war, and prepare for battle, whether this is a cold or a hot civil war. Normal, enlightened, legislative advances in the information age have been blocked practically since the information age itself dawned in the 60s and 70s. There have been no legislative solutions you mention that are holding and lasting. All are being reversed, and what hasn't been reversed yet, will be soon, or be caught up in the stalemate indefinitely.
Not feeling optimistic tonight at all. I may have to take back all of what I have written up until now. Justice Ginsburg not being able to hold on totally messes up the trajectory of this 4T. I may have to write a dystopian version of my previous two prophetic books.
And no, I dissent from any defense of those rightwing Republican appointees on the Court.
I am not so sure we will make progress in this 4T, or make it through this crisis and remove some of the problems. It looks to me like the same old stalemate and decay for another 30 years, unless the Democrats suddenly grow a backbone and realize that we are indeed in a war, and prepare for battle, whether this is a cold or a hot civil war. Normal, enlightened, legislative advances in the information age have been blocked practically since the information age itself dawned in the 60s and 70s. There have been no legislative solutions you mention that are holding and lasting. All are being reversed, and what hasn't been reversed yet, will be soon, or be caught up in the stalemate indefinitely.
Not feeling optimistic tonight at all. I may have to take back all of what I have written up until now. Justice Ginsburg not being able to hold on totally messes up the trajectory of this 4T. I may have to write a dystopian version of my previous two prophetic books.
And no, I dissent from any defense of those rightwing Republican appointees on the Court.