Things Trump Is Doing Right

[Eric the Green]

(05-16-2017, 05:08 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-16-2017, 02:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-16-2017, 09:35 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-15-2017, 02:07 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: And that's the situation of all 4Ts. One side represents the future, the other the past, and one side wins. A 4T is a battle, not a compromise. Only one side's resolution will be adopted. Only one's side's approach will address the problems, and it alone will work.

The artist archetype is the compromiser. They are virtually absent. Nope. Neither side will compromise now. That's the way it is, and that's the way it should be.

I agree that anything like a compromise is unlikely.  It's far more likely that battle continues until the contending factions are simply exhausted.  Let's be honest about the current state of our society.  We have Some much division that no single faction has the ability to lead in the true sense.  If that continues, and it may, then a stalemate is certainly possible.

It's possible. But based on the record of 4Ts, highly unlikely. 4Ts have been battles to the end, and the end comes with the defeat of the faction that permanently loses out in the progression of history.

On the other hand, the 1T witnesses some retrenchment from the values of the winning faction. In that way, in a climate of "exhaustion," the other side sometimes gets some renewal of its status and power (as in the Jim Crow era after Reconstruction, or McCarthyism, or the Alien/Sedition Acts). But this turns out to be temporary, and partial. But it's the 1T where the stalemate comes. As the authors state, the time to make further changes has passed when the 1T starts, although some further consolidation can certainly occur.

My argument for stalemate has to do with the sides in contention.  There are at least 3 variants on the right: the typical GOP conservative types, the Tea Party and the Alt Right.  On the left, you have the neoliberals that still favor a strong business alignment, the populists and the SJWs.  The factions on both sides can't seem to coalesce around a common strategy, or even cooperate with each other.  It's hard to win when you spend all your energy fighting internal battles.  Even a coalition of the center seems out of the question since the level of party animosity is so high.

If that changes, a resolution is in the works.  If not, this petty fighting will just exhaust the contenders.

Exactly. We will not develop the alignment needed for the 4T struggle if we can't get this together.