Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

(12-28-2017, 11:00 PM)Galen Wrote: > He is basically asking the right questions. As much as it pains
> me to say this, the Boomers are still, more or less running
> things, which I am definitely unhappy about. It looks like the
> Boomers are beginning to lose their death grip on American
> politics but not soon enough to prevent the US from doing anything
> really stupid.

I totally disagree, and I've been writing about this for over a
decade.

As I've written many, many times, it's a core principle of
generational theory that, even in a dictatorship, major decisions are
made by masses of people, by generations of people. The attitudes of
politicians are irrelevant, except insofar as they represent the
attitudes of the people. The reason that generational theory works is
that population generations are almost completely predictable,
irrespective of what politicians want.

The Holocaust and World War II would have occurred with or without
Adolf Hitler. The war with North Korea and China will occur with or
without Donald Trump.

The two of you are making the same mistake, confusing politics with
reality.

A fortiori (using an impressive Latin phrase), you're
completely confusing Boomers with Republicans. You both hate Boomers,
and you both hate Republicans. Therefore, in your highly emotional,
illogical minds, desperately grabbing for some simple explanation for
what's going on in a complex world, you reach the totally erroneous
conclusion that Boomers and Republicans are the same.

There are so many obvious counterexamples, it's hard to know which
ones to choose. If Trump were running the country, then his executive
orders about people arriving from some Muslim countries would not have
been overturned by Boomer judges. If Trump were running the country,
then the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare would have succeeded.
If Trump were running the country, he wouldn't have so many leakers in
the White House and FBI. If Trump were running the country, there
would be a wall along the border with Mexico. If Obama had been
running the country, then James Rosen would be in jail.

When the tax bill finally passed last week, there was no generational
divide. There was a political divide. The Democrats in all
generations voted against it, and the Republicans in all generations
voted for it. The reverse was true for Obamacare.

With regard to the really dumb question about how the Boomers are
"manipulating and overruling western citizenry's choices regarding
Free-trade, globalization, immigration and refugees," they aren't.
The phrase "western citizenry's choices" is totally moronic. There's
no such thing. In America you have "Democratic citizenry's choices,"
and you have "Republican citizenry's choices." In Europe you have
"Center-left citizenry's choices" and "Center-right citizenry's
choices" and "Far-left citizenry's choices" and "Far-right citizenry's
choices." And of course each those groups has splinter sub-groups
that can be split out further.

In fact, I'd be willing to guess that while you two are united in
whining about Trump, but you would have completely different reasons
for whining about Trumps policies on "Free-trade, globalization,
immigration and refugees." You two are the perfect examples of how
moronic the phrase "western citizenry's choices" is.

I've explained all this to Cynic "hero" many, many times. But his
mind is so screwed up, I'm sure this explanation, like all the others,
will have been in vain.