The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

At the same time, the Democrats became more dogmatic on the economic principles and the ideological and cultural issues.

The second reason is that the people who are most concerned about climate change are people who are least trusted.

Inevitably, pain starts to course through at least part of the system. The result is the start of political turmoil that is frightening and appears insoluble. Many see it as a sign that the country is coming apart, but in truth it is simply evidence of a rapidly evolving country passing through an orderly change.

The socioeconomic cycle shifts about every fifty years and alters the dynamic of the American economy and society.

This coalition will demand, as is normally the case, a shift in the distribution of power and wealth, but in doing so will be redefining once again the social landscape of America.

Thus, the shift in economic policy will take place within the framework of normal economic development. But there is a deeper social reality emerging that will define a new necessity for American society and will therefore be driving the new technology, social structure, and the very texture of the era.

The economy enters a period in which economic dysfunction becomes unbearable to one social faction, even while another continues to benefit.

But what is their definition of the oppressed? It is not the economically oppressed that they have come to defend but the culturally oppressed.

The problem of the third institutional cycle is that the hyper engineering of the technocrats created very rational solutions in general, but only at the cost of ignoring the endless idiosyncrasies that life consists of.