Wheels within wheels.

[Kinser79]

(07-15-2019, 10:45 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: It's time to toss another log into this fire. One never knows where the Epstein rabbit hole will go.

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-long-view/


How about a long, stair step bounce down ?

Interesting Article Rags.  It also isn't the first time I've seen Trump compared to either Julius or Augustus Caesar. Personally I think he is Julius; the Democrats are making moves to assassinate him politically if not physically, just like the Roman Senators assassinated Julius Caeser. 

As for having a "dominant minority", to use Toynbee's phraseology, we've had that since at least the 1960s.  And the Neo-Liberal (Clinton-ian/Obama-ite faction of one party and Nixon-ian/Bush-ite faction of the other) has been shown to be defeat-able; this was primarily Trump's job (if he actually gets the ball rolling in some direction apart from that is icing on the cake in my book).  So if Trump is Julius as I think, then regardless of the outcome of 2020 (which is likely a Trump Victory incidentally the Dims simply aren't running anyone who can win except perhaps Buttigieg [who is too too young right now, he's under 40 but he might turn up again in the 1T if his political career doesn't end up being a smoking crater after the current 4T ends]) an Augustus must follow.

As for the long running debates on red v. blue I don't have much time for them anymore.  The older I get the more convinced I am that history is written by the victors and the victors always cast themselves as being "on the right side of history".  Truthfully one of the reasons this forum has lost much of its appeal is that the major posters seem more interested in a red/blue horse race than they are in conducting actual political/economic/historical analysis.

ETA:

If one reads the article that Rags shared to the end it continues on with the theory of the the "Long Descent" and how things, no matter who is in charge and with what ideology, things will get progressively worse.  This sounds clearly to me like my predicted Mega-Crisis that I described in the first few posts of this thread.