Just to play along with the 80 year cycle idea:
Wouldn’t the dark winter be somewhere around 20 years? At most we are 4-5 years into it? If that’s the case even a two term Romney,being powerless over the generational cycle, wont be there in the next Spring.
I don’t like Squat’s poem.
Like city dweller, I am more of a hierarchy or needs/self actualization guy who feels like we are living in a materialistic dark age. The candidates have to speak to maintaining this dark age to get elected. We won’t get out of the dark ages by more fighting to maintain materialism at it’s heights and as our highest core value. Any prophet worth his salt would not do that in any case. That’s why I can never get out of the bring it on mode.
Anyway, independent of this post. It seems almost reasonable to practice doom theory responses at least mentally…especially for those of us with children.
Like Carenter, I don’t want to see my kids go through desperate social upheaval…and I think they will. A few trains of thought get up steam. First, I think, let them go it’s their thing… they need to rise to the occasion or not.
On the other hand, I start looking for possible safety valve designs and it gets pretty interesting up there between Rustico’s ears.
