05-12-2018, 05:58 PM
I have a theory which involves G H W Bush---I think that the WWII "greatest generation" has been in control since WWII. G H W Bush was the best example.
That's why many movies and the features on the American History Channel are focused on WWII issues such as Nazis, Dunkirk, Churchill, Monuments Men, Cold War, etc. etc.
The big problem of all of this is how does America transition to the next national state-of-mind? Of my generation, the baby boomers, the only examples of national leaders are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The 1960's mindset with hippies, Civil Rights and anti-War ideas at the forefront just cannot pick up the baton and carry on. The Reaganites and neo-cons have buried them while they are still alive.
That is largely because Goldwaterism transitioned into Reaganism which transitioned into the nee-cons.
This meant that the nation's psyche leapfrogged over the 1960's generation with only a pathetic few like Bernie Sanders carrying on that thinking.
IMHO Reaganism is the ultimate horror show with everything being destroyed in America, from pensions to fair distribution of income, to our manufacturing sector, etc. etc.
And the X-Generation along with Millennials have never known anything besides Reaganism. They just don't understand honest and thought-through national policy. If you tell the Millennials that the most important issue in the USA is transgendered bathrooms, they accept it like sheep. They are zero% reflective.
The problems with America from a MANAGEMENT perspective are these:
1. We spend 25% more on healthcare than any other country.
2. We spend more on the military than the next 11 countries put together.
3. We have had troops in Afghanistan for 17 years with no end in sight. It's like Afghanistan has become the 51st state!!!!
4. We have gone from 27% manufacturing jobs to 17% (and falling).
5. We have gone from 50% to 10% of people in the private sector having pensions.
6. CEO's have gone from earning 500% of worker's pay to their making 5000% of worker's pay.
7. Almost all industries have gone to 80% to 90% control by anti-trust violating monopolies and the anti-trust laws are no longer enforced.
8. Billionaires are becoming oligopolists through the Citizen's United case and many now using their money to buy their way into office.
9. Free speech and freedom itself are now viewed as bad things or at least worthless.
10. There has been a gradual breakdown in the barrier between church and state through state funding of parochial schools. and other programs.
11. We have 10,000 people in advancing mobs trying to crash our borders and take the few remaining good jobs in the US.
12. College, which used to be almost free now costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and there is more student debt than credit-card debt.
I think that with the death of GHW Bush, there is a chance that the very newest generation will take over from the WWII generation with nothing in between.
The newest folks have their backs to the wall. They are, in effect, cornered animals. Maybe the rioting in France is a harbinger of the next iteration of the wealth vs poverty dialectic.
Something has to give here.
James Lateer
That's why many movies and the features on the American History Channel are focused on WWII issues such as Nazis, Dunkirk, Churchill, Monuments Men, Cold War, etc. etc.
The big problem of all of this is how does America transition to the next national state-of-mind? Of my generation, the baby boomers, the only examples of national leaders are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The 1960's mindset with hippies, Civil Rights and anti-War ideas at the forefront just cannot pick up the baton and carry on. The Reaganites and neo-cons have buried them while they are still alive.
That is largely because Goldwaterism transitioned into Reaganism which transitioned into the nee-cons.
This meant that the nation's psyche leapfrogged over the 1960's generation with only a pathetic few like Bernie Sanders carrying on that thinking.
IMHO Reaganism is the ultimate horror show with everything being destroyed in America, from pensions to fair distribution of income, to our manufacturing sector, etc. etc.
And the X-Generation along with Millennials have never known anything besides Reaganism. They just don't understand honest and thought-through national policy. If you tell the Millennials that the most important issue in the USA is transgendered bathrooms, they accept it like sheep. They are zero% reflective.
The problems with America from a MANAGEMENT perspective are these:
1. We spend 25% more on healthcare than any other country.
2. We spend more on the military than the next 11 countries put together.
3. We have had troops in Afghanistan for 17 years with no end in sight. It's like Afghanistan has become the 51st state!!!!
4. We have gone from 27% manufacturing jobs to 17% (and falling).
5. We have gone from 50% to 10% of people in the private sector having pensions.
6. CEO's have gone from earning 500% of worker's pay to their making 5000% of worker's pay.
7. Almost all industries have gone to 80% to 90% control by anti-trust violating monopolies and the anti-trust laws are no longer enforced.
8. Billionaires are becoming oligopolists through the Citizen's United case and many now using their money to buy their way into office.
9. Free speech and freedom itself are now viewed as bad things or at least worthless.
10. There has been a gradual breakdown in the barrier between church and state through state funding of parochial schools. and other programs.
11. We have 10,000 people in advancing mobs trying to crash our borders and take the few remaining good jobs in the US.
12. College, which used to be almost free now costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and there is more student debt than credit-card debt.
I think that with the death of GHW Bush, there is a chance that the very newest generation will take over from the WWII generation with nothing in between.
The newest folks have their backs to the wall. They are, in effect, cornered animals. Maybe the rioting in France is a harbinger of the next iteration of the wealth vs poverty dialectic.
Something has to give here.
James Lateer