02-28-2020, 06:48 PM
(02-28-2020, 11:35 AM)Camz Wrote: I agree with Bob Butler 54. I've been lurking for maybe a week now, and I keep wondering what H&S's generational theory has to say about the election. I can see Bernie being our gray champion. If he becomes president, being unable to afford medicare, using fossil fuels, and outrageous student loan debt could seem ancient to the new Prophets. I feel like the turning can only move forward when Trump's out of office.
Donald Trump could force the Regeneracy by making people desperate enough to want it that they will sweep out people associated with bad 3T ways. Trump is an exemplar of 3T decadence -- or, to use the word that in itself suggests the opposite of a Regeneracy, the Degeneracy. Trump is in roughly the same position as Herbert Hoover with an economy doing well for a few -- but the markets are running out of investment funds. When the money crunch comes, creditors will pull the plug on businesses on life support, and entities excessively leveraged will often collapse. Maybe some really-corrupt organizations will be exposed as such. A credit crunch contributed to the demise of Enrob (get it?) Corporation. Figuring that an eleven-year bull market (with few corporate bankruptcies) has let some business executives get away with some very bad behavior, I can only guess what gets exposed when fecal material hits the fan.
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.