The chaos has arrived
Then came the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the rise of populism, and the pandemic. These were three hits that a healthy democracy could have withstood but that caused ours to buckle and give way, revealing pillars and beams that had been decaying for decades. Pollsters are struggling to catch up with the depth of Americans’ dismay across the poli
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
It would be naïve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic. Now... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
Mao Keji says Americans voted for Trump because "America’s problems— social, economic and political—had become so entrenched that they could no longer be fixed by politics as usual."
He argues however that the actions of the new administration remind him of those of Khrushchev in the Soviet Union "who, in his secret speech at the 20th Congress of th
... See moreDonald Trump won the election by grasping the alienation of broad sectors of society, not only from the federal government, but also from those who serve in it. There was a collision between the federal technocracy and those who had experienced and distrusted it.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
