"Has no one ever told you about the law of Undulation?

Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal. …As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation—the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks. If you had watched your [human] patient carefully you would have seen this undulation in every department of his life—his interest in his work, his affection for his friends, his physical appetites, all go up and down. As long as he lives on earth periods of emotional and bodily richness and liveliness will alternate with periods of numbness and poverty. The dryness and dullness through which your patient is now going are not, as you fondly suppose, your workmanship; they are merely a natural phenomenon which will do us no good unless you make a good use of it.". //

At some point, this age will also come to an end. It's unclear how or why, but what we fought so hard to escape will call itself by a different name, and it will have fresh new causes that take advantage of the people's needs and desires of the time. Those leading that movement will cause the people to turn away from the lessons they learned previously, as the new age will seemingly render them obsolete, and the pendulum will swing back.

We are currently moving toward a peak. We will reach it. Then we will descend.

You cannot stop this, but what you can do is make sure that when the descent starts, that it's not one that will plunge as deeply as this previous age did. The key is to destroy government control over society to the greatest extent possible, put laws in place that will severely restrict it going forward, localize politics as much as possible, and then continue to be prosperous until the age ends.

We will hit a new valley, but in our diligence, we won't have as deep of one as last time.

We have a great opportunity to do this now. We shouldn't waste it, because bad times are coming, but if we're prepared enough, and the framework is in place to help, those bad times could be less of an issue than before. While the law of undulation is absolute, like any universal law, it can be used to your advantage. //

frylock234
10 hours ago edited
The other key to preventing as deep a descent is to not overreach as badly as the left did. The harder and farther the pendulum pushes, the worse the inevitable swing back will be. That does not mean we cannot push back and make considerable progress, but we need to push slowly and relentlessly, by increments rather than radically and suddenly. Heat the frogs slowly over time so they are more inclined to stay in the pot. //

C. S. P. Schofield
10 hours ago
This is one of the reasons I hope to see a shift toward sanity in the Democrat party. The mess we are in now is a consequence of a long period when both parties were Big Government Prigressive, and we only started to come back with the election of Reagan. The absence of an opposition isn’t good for ANY movement. Our system is built around two parties keeping each-other’s extremes in check.

I don’t know what excesses the Populist movement now ascendant will lean towards, but there will be some. If the self-destruction of the Democrats goes on too long, we’re likely to find out.