I am a former resident of FC - I hope they are able to put a little competition to Comcast.
There is a theory, I think first proposed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr (who won two Pulitzer prizes, had an equally renowned father, and was one of Kennedy’s top advisors) that American history tends to move in 80 year cycles divided into two forty year periods or so. Every 40 years US society shifts from capitalism and individualism to community and strong federal government. Neither period is inherently bad, but it’s just that capitalism and democracy don’t coexist as much as rule independently, taking turns.
Schlesinger dated the capitalism period to 1980 starting with Ronald Reagan. That means it should end in 2020 or so.
For all the crimes that fall out of the statue of limitations, I can imagine, not necessarily in a good way and probably will be frowned upon by later historians, that McCarthy-style commissions will be set up and these executives blacklisted from business.
>"Commercial banking firm’s continuing desire for greater powers received support when Ronald Reagan became President and appointed banking regulators who shared an “attitude towards deregulation of the financial industry.”[1]
His legacy of deregulation often decreased competitiveness and paved the way for the 2008 financial crisis. He even willfully used "left wing" Keynseian economics of tax+spend+cut taxes to get short-term gains at the expense of future generations.
As far as I can tell his consistency appears to be that of an authoritarian, which throws this whole analysis off the rails... In my opinion.
It's very hard to reign in all of these beasts he let loose.
1-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Glass–Steagal...
The human mind does not see reality as it is, see the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW07021...
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be...
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
Testing theories of representative government
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...
Blum:
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-histor...
~80 years ago was World War 2.
~80 years before that was the US Civil War.
~80 years before that was the American Revolution.
I'm hoping this time around will be a little more boring. The previous events look like a little too much excitement for my taste.
Noting the exceptions: Eisenhower, Carter, Bush Sr., Clinton, Obama.
I’m sorry, but this is just incredibly simplistic reasoning and i think deserves some testing and scrutiny. Maybe you’re right, but please explain.
I will say once patterns are discovered they tend to be forgotten as well, so modification can stop happening.
The hard thing is predicting where it ends up.
“The Forth Turning” or “Generations” by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Although be warned although those books were well received at the time in like 1993 (including a pretty positive review by the N.Y. Times) they are little less ‘academic’ than Schlesinger’s.
Also the authors Samuel Lubell, R.G. Collingwood, and Frank L. Klinberg.
Regarding the concept of “willful blindness” that is currently experiencing a revival in academic legal circles and is forming the basis for an aggressive, take-no-prisoners approach to white-collar crime, look at “The Chickenshit Club” by Jesse Eisinger.
The Cycles of American History https://www.amazon.com/dp/0395957931/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_0ea9...
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688119123/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_kfa9...
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501121367/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_aea9...