05-05-2016, 07:50 AM
First, I'd agree that the best tool for identifying a GC is 20 20 hindsight.
It also depends on what one understands the GC to be. I'm more concerned with the values aspect of turning theory than most. Thus, I look for someone who best personifies the values that can resolve the crisis issues. Samples might include Lincoln for Union and against slavery while FDR aligned the government to help the working man, and made the US a superpower to deter the expansion of tyrannical autocratic powers.
So, what are the great issues facing us this crisis?
So color me dubious. I'd ask what the crisis problems are, and who looks like they might represent the values necessary to solve the problems. I know my identification of the problems won't be the same as others, but that's what I'd look for in a GC.
Now, I know in the past you have looked for Trump as president as he is most apt to provoke a communist revolution. I see this as unlikely, though more likely than Trump as a true GC.
It also depends on what one understands the GC to be. I'm more concerned with the values aspect of turning theory than most. Thus, I look for someone who best personifies the values that can resolve the crisis issues. Samples might include Lincoln for Union and against slavery while FDR aligned the government to help the working man, and made the US a superpower to deter the expansion of tyrannical autocratic powers.
So, what are the great issues facing us this crisis?
- Domestic division of wealth and power. The GOP has been the party of the wealthy, and I haven't seen that Trump intends to change this. This makes him seem more part of the problem than part of the answer.
- Dysfunctional democracy. The New Deal focus on using government to aid the working man has been diminished by the Reagan push for small government that doesn't interfere with big business. This is in many ways the same as 1, above. Trump is attracting the Reagan believers rather than diminishing the influence of the Reagan memes. Again, he's part of the problem.
- Foreign division of wealth and power leading to immigration problems. Trump's solution, make the poor countries build walls to protect the wealthy countries, isn't real.
- Foreign dysfunctional democracy. We have failed states in the Middle East and autocratic regimes pushing to use military force to create economic advantage. I haven't seen much in the way of a real solution from Trump here, let alone Trump personifying the values necessary for solution. Hey, he's Putin's pal.
- Global Warming might get an honorable mention, but it isn't clear this is going to be an issue resolved in this crisis period.
So color me dubious. I'd ask what the crisis problems are, and who looks like they might represent the values necessary to solve the problems. I know my identification of the problems won't be the same as others, but that's what I'd look for in a GC.
Now, I know in the past you have looked for Trump as president as he is most apt to provoke a communist revolution. I see this as unlikely, though more likely than Trump as a true GC.
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