(08-29-2021, 10:00 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 29-Aug-2021 World View: The beginning of the 'Regeneracy'
ABC News is part of the mainstream media, has always provided cover
for President Biden no matter how stupid and destructive the decisions
of his administration and the Democrats, including opening the border,
opening the prisons, defunding the police, allowing the importation of
fentanyl, and allowing the mass street slaughter of blacks to
continue. No matter how destructive and damaging the policy, ABC News
and the mainstream media were always there to ridicule anyone who
criticized the Democrats. Only Fox News ever provided balanced
coverage, and their anchors were regularly described as racist or
white supremacist, and their families were often threatened with
violence by mobs of antifa-blm-linked woke crowds.
Your view of Democrats is sheer fantasy. FoX News is a propaganda organ intent on manipulating the political climate in favor of the Hard Right. It may not be selective on who the right-wing hero is, and it can gloss over the horrible behavior of Donald Trump.
Quote:Listening to "ABC News Thisweek" this Sunday morning, one might almost
think that he had accidentally tuned into Fox News. They were
painting the situation in Afghanistan in the most horrific terms (in
my opinion, correctly), and they were blaming it all on the ridiculous
decisions and behavior of Biden.
Do liberals paint a pretty picture of Afghanistan under the Taliban? No. Trump cut the deal and we are stuck with the consequences. More precisely, the people of Afghanistan are stuck with the consequences.
Quote:(Incidentally, a fascinating part of the show was the interview with
the former army ranger Jariko Denman. He was apparently one of the
people I described in my previous posting on "Pineapple Express," and
he described how he and the others were operating.)
Pineapple Express is heroic. It could do what it does only if the military and the Commander-in-Chief get out of the way of its operations and offer secretive support.
Quote:Many times in the past, I've described the concept of "Regeneracy" in
generational theory. This is one or more events that cause political
differences to be put aside, and cause the population to be unified
behind the leader. In World War II, it was the Pearl Harbor bombing
and the Bataan Death March.
The Afghanistan catastrophe, combined with memories of 9/11/2001, and
the size of last Thursday's ISIS-K attack, killing over a dozen
American soldiers, can be considered the first major event of the
current Regeneracy. It's forcing the woke garbage to be put aside,
and uniting Republicans, Democrats and independents.
Which Regeneracy?
We still have a huge Left-Right divide between people who dream of a few plutocrats lording it over everyone, science subordinate to political ideology, dissent toward pure plutocracy quashed everywhere, and 95% of the people suffering for the sybaritic indulgence of 1% or so and showing delight in such -- or else -- and people who see something very different. The vast majority responsible to a tiny slice of Humanity that acts without responsibility? That has never worked well anywhere else, and it is extreme arrogance to assume that it would work well in America just because anything can work in America.
If you don't think that Marxism-Leninism would work in American, then how can you believe that a high-tech feudalism would?
Quote:However, it's not a Regeneracy in the same way as Pearl Harbor. FDR
knew how to react, and even today his words "A day that will live in
infamy" still ring true.
Is "11/22/1963" a day that will live in infamy? Is "9/11/2001"? Is "1/6/2021"? All three are. The latter one is in a Crisis Era, and as such it may have an even longer influence upon American life. January 6, 2001 is eleven months and one day short of eighty years after December 7, 1941.
Georgia completed a pair of run-off elections and ousted two Trump-enablers on the very day of the Capitol Putsch. Maybe that is the real start of the final phase of the Regeneracy.
Quote:Contrast that with Biden's pathetic robotic performance, baring his
teeth, saying "we will find you, we will make you pay," and hanging
his head in shame. (Former President Trump posted a video, broadcast
on Fox but ignored by the mainstream media, that was much more
memorable and to the point.)
The shame was that ISIS-K was able to kill Americans.
Quote:So while the Pearl Harbor bombing united the country behind FDR, the
Afghanistan catastrophe is uniting the country AGAINST Biden and the
Democrats.
It is far too early to tell.
Quote:The Democrats are hoping that the whole catastrophe will pass quickly
from public memory, and they can go back to one destructive policy
after another. If the opposite happens -- that the situation
continues to worsen -- then Biden's presidency will be untenable. The
next two in line - Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi -- are just as
incompetent as Biden.
Republicans are mostly trivializing the Capitol Putsch and even the Michigan Plot. Don't fool yourself about the significance of the Michigan Plot. It could have established a "Bloody Kansas" situation.
Incompetence does not mean simply that you dislike them.
Quote:This "Regeneracy Event" is going to have political consequences. It
will be necessary to find a way, within the Constitution, to find a
way to replace Biden with someone competent.
If his mental state should deteriorate to the extent that he cannot have his personal role reduced to something ceremonial while competent people do the real work (as happened with Reagan, and America got away with it) we can still get by fine. If his physical health is so shaky that he must choose between dying in office or living a few more months as a former president, then we already have the Constitutional provision of a Vice-President.
Please recognize that Donald Trump was hideous as President even for things that had little connection to his political stances. he was not effective in achieving the wish list of the Far Right which includes a national Right-to-Work (for much less) Law, an abortion ban, school prayer, and perhaps even changing the election laws so that only rich property owners can vote or that people vote as their employers dictate. Trump was objectionable and ineffective.
Be careful about calling for the Regeneracy. It might not go as you expect. Figure that the best traits of an Idealist generation (principle), Reactive (pragmatism), and Civic (rationality) will all play their roles.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
