In response to your very insightful words, Thom: "That outrage, hopefully, will lead to some real and meaningful change in America if we can take our country back from the corrupt and well-funded GOP this year," I'd like to put what you are saying in the 4th Turning perspective. In our last 4th Turning, the "meaningful change" was the le…
In response to your very insightful words, Thom: "That outrage, hopefully, will lead to some real and meaningful change in America if we can take our country back from the corrupt and well-funded GOP this year," I'd like to put what you are saying in the 4th Turning perspective. In our last 4th Turning, the "meaningful change" was the leap from the outrageous inequality of the late 1920's into the early 1930's....to the post-Great-Depression-WWII 90% tax on the rich while the GI-Bill gave free education to returning GI soldiers and we built the largest middle class the world had yet seen. Neil Howe in his book "The 4th Turning Is Here" calls this last phase of the Crisis the "resolution"....in which "the big problems are resolved and the new order established." But, he also, notes, positive results only follow IF the egalitarian side is "triumphant" during the climax of the 4th Turning Crisis. We are currently in the fourth phase of this Crisis--the "consolidation" phase--in which we are recognizing that our renewed sense of community is "in a true struggle for survival." That is becoming perfectly clear, is it not? We either keep Joe Biden in the White House this November....or we lose our republic and our democracy. It's that simple....and absolutely vital. Only then can we enact the many, urgently needed changes to our Supreme Court, our laws, our elections, our healthcare, education, the climate crisis, etc. So, in my view, we need to do both now: save our democracy & republic while also looking ahead and planning for changes in the post-Crisis First Turning....like we did in our last First Turning (the 1950's)....
In response to your very insightful words, Thom: "That outrage, hopefully, will lead to some real and meaningful change in America if we can take our country back from the corrupt and well-funded GOP this year," I'd like to put what you are saying in the 4th Turning perspective. In our last 4th Turning, the "meaningful change" was the leap from the outrageous inequality of the late 1920's into the early 1930's....to the post-Great-Depression-WWII 90% tax on the rich while the GI-Bill gave free education to returning GI soldiers and we built the largest middle class the world had yet seen. Neil Howe in his book "The 4th Turning Is Here" calls this last phase of the Crisis the "resolution"....in which "the big problems are resolved and the new order established." But, he also, notes, positive results only follow IF the egalitarian side is "triumphant" during the climax of the 4th Turning Crisis. We are currently in the fourth phase of this Crisis--the "consolidation" phase--in which we are recognizing that our renewed sense of community is "in a true struggle for survival." That is becoming perfectly clear, is it not? We either keep Joe Biden in the White House this November....or we lose our republic and our democracy. It's that simple....and absolutely vital. Only then can we enact the many, urgently needed changes to our Supreme Court, our laws, our elections, our healthcare, education, the climate crisis, etc. So, in my view, we need to do both now: save our democracy & republic while also looking ahead and planning for changes in the post-Crisis First Turning....like we did in our last First Turning (the 1950's)....