11-11-2019, 11:10 AM
"Yes -- we are in a Crisis Era, and even an Obama-style Presidency might be utterly inadequate. We will need major reforms of the political system to prevent another play-for-pay system even more blatant than what Trump has shown us. That is even before I discuss changes in economic norms. "
I have always maintained - and still maintain - that we have been in an unprecedented hybrid Unraveling-Crisis era since 9/11, with the "security state" (remember the good old days when cars were allowed on the Staten Island Ferry, for example?), Trump's Muslim travel ban (and the wave of hate crimes against Muslims), etc., indicative of the Crisis component, and the still-very-much-alive Culture Wars and the likewise still-very-much-alive Cold War Bloody Shirt Syndrome that is preventing us from tackling issues like health care and education, indicative of the Unraveling component.
But this "hybrid era" will not last much longer. Either a stock market crash or the outbreak of the Second Civil War on the heels of the 2020 election will put an end to it.
I have always maintained - and still maintain - that we have been in an unprecedented hybrid Unraveling-Crisis era since 9/11, with the "security state" (remember the good old days when cars were allowed on the Staten Island Ferry, for example?), Trump's Muslim travel ban (and the wave of hate crimes against Muslims), etc., indicative of the Crisis component, and the still-very-much-alive Culture Wars and the likewise still-very-much-alive Cold War Bloody Shirt Syndrome that is preventing us from tackling issues like health care and education, indicative of the Unraveling component.
But this "hybrid era" will not last much longer. Either a stock market crash or the outbreak of the Second Civil War on the heels of the 2020 election will put an end to it.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892