Signs of a Dying Empire

[David Horn]

(05-09-2022, 02:06 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-07-2022, 08:04 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Let me express what a Hard Right America would look like.....

I don't disagree. But what people seem to gloss over today is the gravity of the current 4T. We are living under rulers who deny climate change and delay the needed action on it. If this continues, not only will our republic be forever and irretrievably ruined by the hard Right, but our world as a place that can sustain our lives and civilization will be damaged beyond repair. Although the destruction will happen over a number of the following decades, it will be of such an accelerating nature that no second turning or Awakening will be able to take hold or stem the destruction. The tipping points will have been tipped. What will follow our current 4T, which will last through the 2020s, will merely be continuous decline and worsening crisis; a never-ending 4T.

Don't even contemplate what the next 2T will look like, until we know whether the Republicans have been defeated and a reform decade has taken hold in the 2020s. To hold any other idea than this is to put your head in the sand. Right now, just one senator has blocked the start of this reform decade. What a ridiculous tragedy this is. Write to Manchin and read him the riot act now.

Sadly, it's less about the politicians and more about the electorate.  Politicians tend to "lead from the rear".  They get elected by being less scary or by playing to prejudice.  In neither case are they leaders, in the true sense of the term.  

There has been a 50-year concerted effort to savage policies that hurt the wealthy, and here we are.  There are only two ways to exit this mess: convince the PTB that they are killing the goose that lays their golden eggs, and a quick reversal is needed (this may work or not), or fight fire with fire, and go for the throats of the very people responsible for the mess (also not guaranteed to work, btw). The option no one wants to consider is letting it all fall apart, until the rot is undeniable.  That's a long way in the wrong direction.  Let's avoid that!