03-15-2017, 06:25 AM
(03-14-2017, 10:55 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: There are some posters here who are just in a complete froth about the notion of a strong government.
I could have been one of them, had I continued on the path of "hate government no matter what."
To be fair about such sentiments, when Reagan said "government is the problem" he was looking at a government that had taken the New Deal and subsequently the Great Society way past what government should have been. It was liberal bloat. That was then, this is now.
We need government strong enough to protect the innocent and helpless and to enforce some modicum of fairness. Powerless government implies the power of local mobsters or feudal lords that can be as personally oppressive as any government.
Quote:We are in a 4th turning. The Civics are going to make government great again.
If Howe and Strauss are at all right in their characterization of Millennial adults, then such is so. The only alternative was for the current Crisis Era to have hit early and hard and to have ended quickly in apocalypse, with Generation X taking on part of the Civic role and Millennial adults shoved into an Adaptive role. The time in which such could happen (early part of the Double-Zero decade) is long past.
Millennial adults will not have much taste for Pie-in-the-Sky promises of fundamentalist preachers; they are too rational for that. They are not suckers for the extreme individualism of many X leaders. Millennial adults see plenty of problems, and they see government as the only means of solving them equitably and effectively.
As Boomers age into senility and death, Boomer roles in leadership will come to an end. They will leave a vacuum in political life, one that younger adults ordinarily fill. Millennial adults are the ones to fill the vacuum.
Quote:The Xers and Boomers who cling to the 3T are going to hate it.
I am a Boomer and I am sick of the depravity of 3T ways. Could anyone be more 3T than Donald Trump?
Quote:I think what we are seeing is the Red Boomers and Red Xers are really acting out now because everyone knows the real Regeneracy is coming. The real Regeneracy will make government OK again. It will be considered an extremist belief to hate government. This will be especially true once we complete the 4T and start the 1T.
We have elections and laws to keep government from becoming a master.
Quote:So, all haters here, continue your hate fest. Burn yourselves out really well. This is your last chance to espouse 3T thinking.
I certainly won't miss the bigots, fanatics, and shysters.
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.