11-03-2021, 07:45 PM
(11-03-2021, 10:05 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-02-2021, 12:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-02-2021, 10:26 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-02-2021, 04:17 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Wow, only 72% of USA Americans have even received one dose. And people wonder why the pandemic continues?
This fits with a prior comment I made on another thread. Dems need to quit wimping out and put vaccine mandates in place that have real teeth, then enforce them to the letter. There will be howls until they actually work, then the howlers will either shut-up or move on to another whine. Being weak is a guarantee of failiure, and the Dems have had failure imprinted on their DNA for decades. Time to grow a spine!
Yes indeed. DeBlazio is showing spine on this, although not so much on some other things.
It may be that Dems are simply incapable of being authoritarian enough when needed to prevent disasters, allowing the Reps to run the board. It's a large part of my contention that the 4T won't be successful, making the next 2T into a barnburner. It's not my preference, but it seems to be how the game is going.
It's hard to say about this 4T. Usually it looks bad while we are in it. As you know, I don't see any basis for hope for the next 2T, if this 4T fails. Failed societies don't have 2Ts, unless rescued by other societies during their 4T. If our 4T fails, it is because our nation has become different from that of the past 500 years; more evil, more ignorant, more deceived, more stubborn, more complacent, more decadent, more greedy, more unmanagable by any human agency. So if that is the case about our current 4T society, then the 2T will just be further chaos and also end badly. It could be argued that our previous 2T ended more badly too than previous ones. If a nation is just in decline, then it doesn't really matter which turning it is in. It will just decline faster, or slower, depending on which turning it is in.
Even this is hard to believe, given how evil our society has always been. But in our saeculum it has reached its peak of power and prosperity, and so decline in every way, which has already well begun, may be the only thing we can expect from now on. Yet, as I said, with 7 or 8 years left to run for SURE, we can't know just how our 4T will turn out. Whatever victory is achieved, if it happens, (and a blue victory is the only outcome that's a victory), it will be partial, not perfect, and only then we can expect further change and progress in the next 2T, with a renewed spiritual discovery or revival along with it that is mostly missing today, but has always happened in past 2Ts.