10-21-2020, 05:28 PM
(10-21-2020, 02:41 PM)jleagans Wrote: Calling it ! (And praying for it )
9/11 turned us down a dark road of polarization and enmity amidst the Boomer cognitive decline feeding it all.
This election the millennial soldiers save democracy itself and usher in the 1T.
September 11 and Bush 43's Middle East wars did act very similar to a crisis. The question was stay the course against cut and run. The answer was not decisive as to the red blue split. You could change a foreign country's culture by force, but they didn't do it right. The answer to the basic question was to become distinctly reluctant to put boots on the ground. Trying to commit to violence and cultural change while fighting proxy war left the country in an economic mess. The red blue debate was not resolved, fell into a continued unraveling. While the traditional role of a crisis in making us war adverse was there, the endless debate between factions continued. A crisis? Good question.
Either way, the crisis will likely not end on Election Day. Trump is apt to try something during his lame duck period. The bug has to be cured, the racial violence checked and the economy put together again. This is not trivial even with science valued and a united crises level culture and government.
The never again period is generally considered part of the crisis. How do you prevent Trump and the fantasy reality from happening again? I can see WHO being put on steroids, a large anti racism resolve and fact checking being made a high virtue.
Your proposal is somewhat fast even putting the environment as a half hearted effort checked by the bad economy of the virus. As Batman suggested in the Justice League film, the doomsday clock will have it's snooze button hit yet again. It won't be put off so well come the awakening.
And there is Warren's comment. There will always be a few clinging to the old values, not seeing the country change, dismissing the theory. I don't think it will be relevant. The shift from selfishness to sacrifice for the community will be ignored by a few, but not by the whole. There are none so blind as those who don't want to see.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.