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Noah writes: “I get paid to understand, but really, I don’t, and I have yet to encounter anybody who does.“

What is going on (in part) is a Creedal Passion Period (CPP). This one began around 2013 and is projected to end around 2027:

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/cycles-of-radicalization

The peak year for this one was in 2020, the peak of the last one (1963-1978*) was 1968 (when your mom said she didn't know what was happening to the country) and the peak for the one before (1913-27) that was in 1919, year of Red Summer, the Red Scare and the Palmer Raids.

This one feels different than the last one because the divisions seem more likely to spin into civil war today. This reflects a different dynamic have to do with economic inequality and elite proliferation.

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/the-american-secular-cycles

Our current situation is in a crisis period related to this dynamic.

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/the-current-crisis-era

It is most like the period of a century ago, when we were in a capitalist crisis like now

https://mikealexander.substack.com/p/the-capitalist-crisis

And a creedal passion period like now. And the parallels are eerie. We had a pandemic then and now. Inflation and immigration were big issues and a new corrupt administration came to power following an unpopular Democrat who wanted to run for another term but was too feeble to do so. The new administration proceeded to shut down immigration from nonwhite countries by a series if increasingly draconian measures over 1921-24. Today we even have a large-scale European war compared to the first world war than raged during the CPP back then.

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I want to hear numbers which I can relate to. For example, Medicaid gets $62B and there are 72M who qualify to use it. Everyone doesn't use it, but simple math gives average per person of $861/person.

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