COVID-19 is the climax to this 4T

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-27-2020, 11:39 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: That's all true, but are you sure that a regeneracy is only "when a new administration fully implements the progressive agenda?" Can't it be when a movement emerges among the people that will lead toward this?

It could be defined in other ways.  Depending on the historian, what he is most interested in, what he looks at, you could define that action with economic, military, popular, political or other markers.  Is it Lexington and Concord or the Declaration of Independence?  Is it the Harper’s Ferry raid, the election of Lincoln or Fort Sumpter?  Is it the stock market crash or FDR’s hundred days?  Was it the Four Freedoms speech that declared without partisanship the US was committed or was it Pearl Harbor?

Somewhere along the line, the bulk of the people get committed to the new ideals and a tidal wave of unity overcomes the formerly formidable opposition.  There is little they can do but drink tea and cuss at That Man in the White House.  Oh, in each crisis war there is a rough time when that opposition will present cut and run as the best option.  They never did cut and run in the Revolution, the Civil War or World War II.

This time around, when did the tidal wave become inevitable?  Could you point at the identification of the virus in Wuhan, or must we wait patiently for Inauguration Day in 2021?  The support for taking action with isolation and fighting the virus isn’t really waiting.  The various governors are leading coalitions of convenience on both coasts and the midwest.  The new values are beginning their sweep, but are not working at the federal level yet.

It’s a valid question, but if you have to point at a particular moment I wind up looking at when the Buchanan / Hoover / Trump type of leader that demonstrates how poorly the old ideals work lets go of the reins of power.

(My spell checker must be a Tolkein fan.  It suggested that he should let go of the rings of power.  I’m not sure if the bad presidents are that bad!)