Fascism is on the ballot

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(10-14-2020, 03:22 PM)Isoko Wrote: Bob, 

I agree more with the Eric the Green these days because what he is saying actually seems to be he way the world is heading in. How did I come to that conclusion? Living in Russia and hearing the talk from the younger generation. Good quality of life, the right to freely work and travel wherever you want, more liberalism. I realised to myself that the days of the right wing are over.

Of course, it will take some more time before the world fully converges into one but the trend is there. Nationalism is the harbinger of the old who want the past back. ClassicXer reminds me of all the good old comrades in Russia who miss uncle Joe and want the Soviet Union back. Same thing with the MAGA people. They want their old white country back. 

But the times have changed. A new generation is going to assemble onto the steps of power and they are more focused on climate change and Liberal ideas rather then the right of old. 

Originally even I was right wing. I hated the idea of us all becoming one. But I started to see things differently. I saw Trump making an even greater fool of himself, the demands of the Belarusian youth, the BLM movement and I realised - we cannot fight change. We have to embrace it.

I'd rather embrace the future then cling onto the past. After all, if the past was so great, why did it not endure? Why did people want change in the first place?

Eventually Russia will change too. Iran will change. China will change. Japan is already changing as is South Korea. The future of Europe is multiracial. 

That said, I sort of still disagree with Eric that the future will be left wing. I think that people are starting to get tired of the left, at least in the West. I think the future belongs ultimately to the centrist with swings to centre right and centre left culture depending on the mood of the times. But centrist it will be.

P1:  The RW is definitely hanging tough though, which may be a big reason why change in a more positive direction has been so slow to come. Never dreamed that the impact of Reaganomics will hang on for going on a half century. It has been pointed out here that everything feels a little more intense when we move deeper into a 4T; the opposite of the 2T which tends to be more front-loaded with the bulk of the action coming in the turning's opening years.

P2:  I originally thought the the MAGA slogan meant trying for a return of the days when one person can hold the same job for decades and retire with a gold watch.  Very few believe we can return to that culture even in the forthcoming 1T.  If nothing else, I doubt that today's womanhood would ever put up with returning to the kitchen.

P3: A rewrite of a classic early Bob Dylan song might be apropos here. (The times they are a-changin', again)  But many on this forum including me go back far enough to remember how activist Boomers were on all these thing during their youth when peace, love and understanding was their mantra.

P4: Never really considered myself to be right wing but was born and raised Republican when the party wasn't as extreme as it became since Reagan. Gerald Ford may have been among the last moderate Republicans but Democrats have also done much worshipping at the altar of the corporate trough as well.  I am probably one of those rare birds who became more liberal as he aged.  One story I read did seem to indicate the possibility of Boomers once again becoming more liberal in their old age.  I was though not in favor of union domination in my earlier years but later came to realize that workers were in many ways better off when they had more clout, although some of them probably had too much.

P5: A classic Biblical passage that was turned into a popular song tells the story.

P6: Japan and Germany both changed dramatically following WWII and eventually overtook our prowess in some ways.

P7: But yet that happy medium is always a very elusive thing. Something we never really seem to achieve. Even nature provides us with an equinox twice a year.