05-02-2020, 04:40 PM
Pbower has listed some current day issues which will do well enough.
My primary concern is that you have not seen how the races and parties have switched allegiances, and how nukes have changed the philosophy of warfare.
Most of the overt racism was handled in the 1960s. Blacks not being able to stay in many hotels, eat in most restaurants, purchase housing in many neighborhoods, all changed with the Civil Rights Act. At that time LBJ and MLK were working together, in part for justice, in part for the Democrats to get the black vote. This made Nixon’s Southern Strategy nigh on inevitable, as the Republicans quietly gathered the racist vote. If you haven’t noticed that, if you don’t believe me, you can do some research on various polls. Who voted for whom and when?
In Obama’s years there was a war between those trying to roll back affirmative action and those that came to be called the Social Justice Warriors. In Trump’s years the action switched to the Neo Nazi, KKK and Antifa. This seems to be what is left of the problems with the blacks. These groups are all affiliated with one or another of the major parties. It doesn’t take much effort to see which party is affiliated with the racists today, and which is resisting them.
The issues of racism, equality tribal thinking and white privilege have moved on to the latinos and immigration policy. Again, the progressives are for equality, and the conservatives are not.
Nor does it take much to see that nukes changed warfare. When was the last crisis war? Did Vietnam and Bush 43’s Middle Eastern wars suggest that proxy war, changing the culture at gunpoint and neocolonialism were bad ideas? This is not to say we have grown entirely beyond violence. There are some autocratic governments that are not going to peacefully let go of their power. Still, if you learned the patterns of war from the Industrial Age, your analysis of the Information Age is going to be way off.
My primary concern is that you have not seen how the races and parties have switched allegiances, and how nukes have changed the philosophy of warfare.
Most of the overt racism was handled in the 1960s. Blacks not being able to stay in many hotels, eat in most restaurants, purchase housing in many neighborhoods, all changed with the Civil Rights Act. At that time LBJ and MLK were working together, in part for justice, in part for the Democrats to get the black vote. This made Nixon’s Southern Strategy nigh on inevitable, as the Republicans quietly gathered the racist vote. If you haven’t noticed that, if you don’t believe me, you can do some research on various polls. Who voted for whom and when?
In Obama’s years there was a war between those trying to roll back affirmative action and those that came to be called the Social Justice Warriors. In Trump’s years the action switched to the Neo Nazi, KKK and Antifa. This seems to be what is left of the problems with the blacks. These groups are all affiliated with one or another of the major parties. It doesn’t take much effort to see which party is affiliated with the racists today, and which is resisting them.
The issues of racism, equality tribal thinking and white privilege have moved on to the latinos and immigration policy. Again, the progressives are for equality, and the conservatives are not.
Nor does it take much to see that nukes changed warfare. When was the last crisis war? Did Vietnam and Bush 43’s Middle Eastern wars suggest that proxy war, changing the culture at gunpoint and neocolonialism were bad ideas? This is not to say we have grown entirely beyond violence. There are some autocratic governments that are not going to peacefully let go of their power. Still, if you learned the patterns of war from the Industrial Age, your analysis of the Information Age is going to be way off.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
