The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(06-11-2020, 11:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(06-11-2020, 10:50 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-11-2020, 10:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I know that you've made the mistake of associating me and others with racism as your racists and ignorant racist believers continue to   show us obvious signs of racism and support for racism and promotion of racism. You may as well be clan because you and others aren't all that much different than them these days.

You have not been obviously racist in your posting, but this does not mean the Republican Party doesn't welcome the racist votes.  LBJ went all progressive, allied with MLK, and went after the black vote with his civil rights legislation and war on poverty.  The Republicans did the obvious.  I don't think the Republicans will try to stop a very popular movement towards equality taking place in the crisis heart.  I suspect they would fail miserably if they tried.  As a blue guy, I almost want them to try.  It seems most have recognized the proverbial handwriting on the wall and are laying low.

I am of the mind that the conservative rural stay-the-same faction has the advantage for three plus turnings, but this is more than made up for by progressive action during and resulting from the crisis heart.  Well, the last awakening might have been transformational, and that was the only awakening seen in the Information Age, possibly representative, but that is a discussion for another day.  Anyway, the crisis heart is finally here.  Conservatives will have to learn to hang onto their hats for a while.

Arguably, all Awakenings also move progressive action forward, unlike 1 and 3Ts, but the conservative faction still has equal power overall, whereas in 4Ts there comes a time when the conservative opposition is defeated more fully by progressive action.

I have to side with Bob on this.  Yes, 2Ts point a spotlight on the faults in society, but they typically produce no positive changes.  This last 2T actually solidified the power of the reactionary element in this country and many other parts of the world as well.  But eventually, the rot is unavoidably bad, and action is needed to alter or eliminate it.  That's where we are -- at the beginning of the resolution.  But let's not assume we know what that resolution will actually turn out to be.  We have a hint of where we'll end, but we're still moving toward the problem. 

Here, in the US, Biden won't be a savior; he'll be a placeholder at best.  Someone or something else needs to take center stage before we can resolve this mess, and the list of potential leaders is short.