Sublime

From the point of view of the declining class, both political parties were indifferent if not opposed, in varying degrees, to their interests.

CIA assessment,

The country was still divided down the middle, with the technocrats successfully defending their institutions.

The second problem is that being a university professor is among the highest-paid part-time work in the world.

The university is the battleground of the crisis of the 2020s because it is the system that fuels the broad social bureaucracy.

Policies that had worked for the previous fifty years stop working, causing significant harm instead. A political and cultural crisis arises, and what had been regarded as common sense is discarded. The political elite insists that there is nothing wrong that couldn’t be solved by more of the same.

The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.

But in the 2020s the image of the federal government will make deliberate collusion the only coherent explanation for its failure.

A financial crisis rooted in the Civil War broke out in 1873, prefacing a change in eras.