"Blame Men" - Toxic Masculinity, 1920s-Style We just concluded the past cycle of the Culture Wars/the unraveling. The last period of Culture Wars/unraveling occurred from 1909 - 1929. It included WWI, Prohibition, Women's Suffrage and the first modern emancipation of women, a surge in violent criminality, and many other events and actions like the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, an Amendment to the Constitution authorizing the direct election of Senators, and an Amendment of the Constitution allowing the federal government to directly raise an income tax from the people. More below. The last unraveling ended similarly to the one we concluded in 2009 with the election of Barak Obama and the Great Recession. The unraveling of the 1920s ended with the election of Herbert Hoover, a progressive President, the 1929 stock market crash, and the following Great Depression. It lasted until the end of WWII.
To understand what we will go through one needs to understand the last Crisis Change 1929 - 1946, the one before 1860-1865, and the one before 1773 -1794. The thing to remember is that just as in the last Crisis Change the prior unraveling created great excesses, the article cited above is quite good. But these excesses are always trimmed as we enter the Crisis Change historical period. During, or just before the last Crisis Change prohibition of alcohol was rescinded, Cary Nation and her roving band of old lady hoodlums were vanquished, women's suffrage stopped spinning off radical feminists, and violent criminality reduced. Civic society was deeply fractured at the end of the unraveling but came together during the Crisis Change, and in the end, the nation worked together resolved the Great Depression and WWII. The heady days of the unraveling were long forgotten by 1946. The men and women came home from the war. The nation seamlessly turned to the hard work of remaking the new international order. The result was a new American order, including a return to family, friends, work, and church. We still have our Crisis Change period's national regeneracy and the ultimate resolution. What will those entail? I'll let you know after they happen, but the crisis will be something we cannot foresee. It will, however, quickly bring the nation together and focus us towards an existential threat. We will reduce the danger likely with much daring-do, and sacrifice from the young men and women in the Millennial generation. They will grow up fast. I am optimistic but the historical period is narrowing to the danger point. Will the danger be a nuclear-armed North Korea? A nuclear-armed Iran or a pan-Middle East war of Sunni versus Shia? Will it be that Trump's administration perhaps through a special prosecutor brings criminal charges against high-level DOJ, FBI, Department of State, CIA, National Security staff members including Hillary Clinton, and maybe even Barak Obama? That would undoubtedly create a shock which could fracture the nation. I would not be surprised if that were to happen to see states seceding from the union. Such an event would be unprecedented. I would not have foreseen this possibility even a year ago. I remember when President-elect Trump said he did not want to pursue an investigation of Hillary Clinton's problems with her email and the mishandling of classified documents. I agreed, wholeheartedly. I did because I could not foresee that the criminality and corruption of the Obama administration could be so thick, and pervasive as to lead to what amounts to a soft coup, by the federal bureaucracy, throwing of the election to Hillary Clinton. I can see the potential threat of war in the Middle East, the South China Sea, Ukraine, or from a collapsing Russia, and even from a dying Europe going to war with Muslim invaders from North Africa, and the Middle East. The Constitutional Crisis created by the Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration bureaucrats is unprecedented, increasing, and dangerous beyond belief. One other area the Crisis Change could come from is the markets. Should the markets collapse, that could also trigger a shock. I think this is less likely. The markets are overvalued, but the lack of recovery after the Great Recession leave room for a boom now. But it's the markets so who knows? Buckle in; the next few years are likely to get rough and go fast, really fast!
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