Reply #176: somehow the cycle got screwed with and we missed the last cycle [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

of dissent, which has intensified things. We had the labor movement of the 1880s/1890s, before the Gilded Age. We had the political radicalism of the 1930s. The New Left movement, coinciding with civil rights and anti-war movements in the 60s, spurring the feminist and gay movements. But the next cycle, of the 1990s never happened. The cycle of progressivism should have peaked in 2000 or so, but instead we got Bushco.

When you don't get little tremors to relieve the stress on a fault, when a quake comes it is big. I think we are looking at the San Adreas Big One coming. Question is, are WE ready for it? We know the other side is - they have their offshore accounts, their mercenary armies, their walled & gated communities.

Are WE earthquake ready?