tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post1229469126158105377..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Biden was the Only Answer to TrumpJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-84446385758679098232020-12-05T07:48:20.859-05:002020-12-05T07:48:20.859-05:00I wouldn't say that is "the only question...I wouldn't say that is "the only question." A more interesting question, in my opinion, is what difference will it make? Every generation is the youth of some generation, and each one decides on the social mores it prefers, calls the previous evil, and sets up a new system of values, only to be overturned in its place. Do you call that progress, or is it merely each historical period "changing its clothes," while all the goods and evils of human nature stay right where they are and always have been?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-54888597387124655042020-12-02T18:25:33.350-05:002020-12-02T18:25:33.350-05:00"Moving forward I do not see any national mom...<i>"Moving forward I do not see any national momentum toward progressive politics. I expect that Republicans will hold the Senate and take back the House in 2022. We're stuck with muddled, mainstream politics because that is where the country is."</i><br /><br />One problem with this view is that while it's true overall, it doesn't give a proper sense of what things are going to be like going forward.<br /><br />There's currently an utterly massive political divide between younger and older generations. American youth are more progressive than they've ever been in history, but their aspirations for change and progress are held back by their much more conservative parents and grandparents, who simply outnumber them in aggregate.<br /><br />But time marches on, and the old guard have already slowly begun to die off with age, and that process is only going to accelerate. The current gerontocracy is simply running out of time, and in a decade or two the political landscape is going to be wildly different, if for no other reasons than because so many of the Baby Boomers will finally be dead, and their selfish and oppressive policies with them.<br /><br />We've already begun to see historic shifts in the kinds of people being elected to Congress - more women, more minorities, younger in age, less out of touch. That trend, too, is going to grow as time passes. The <i>"muddled, mainstream politics"</i> of the present moment will inevitably come to an end.<br /><br />The only question is, how will these changes come to pass? Will the older generations stubbornly cling to power as long as possible, like Trump refusing to concede? How many more senseless disgraces and injustices will we have to face as a society before progress comes in the wake of the Grim Reaper? And will the youth of America have to patience to wait that long, before they are allowed to decide their own futures instead of having their elders continue to quash them out of fear?G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com