The telltale signs of negative social mood are upon us.
The last time a time a US president federalized the national guard against the wishes of a state governor was in March 1965, when Lyndon Johnson deployed them to protect civil rights marchers in Alabama. (Guardian)
Hmmm. March 1965. I wonder where that occurs on a chart of the Dow Jones Industrials adjusted for inflation?
Gosh! That’s less than a year before the real money Dow went down for 18 years!
Socionomics provides a context for understanding how *stuff happens*
Read this excerpt from the April 2010 Socionomist:
We forecast that a continuing long-term trend toward negative social mood will produce increasingly authoritarian—and anti-authoritarian—impulses and eventually lead to the appearance of severe authoritarian regimes around the globe.
LA on fire? National Guard? Marines? Riots? Sounds like “increasingly authoritarian—and anti-authoritarian—impulses” to me!
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