HoosLeft w/ Scott Aaron RogersIn a two-party system, constituencies move from one party to another. The parties used to fight over economics but have since shifted to fight over culture war issues. We're in the middle of another turning now.
AnneTheWriterThis strikes me as very inkeeping with the social predictions of #TheFourthTurning. Author #NeilHowe proposes that we are near the end of a "Crisis" phase, which should last another 6-10 years. At which point, some drastic event (war, pandemic, etc) will reset things and we will start the beginning of a new #FirstTurning, or a new "High" phase.
Personally, I can't wait for that to start.
#StraussHowe #FourthTurning #SocialCycles #SocialSciences #SocialScience #SociopoliticalChange #SociologicalTheory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
Joshua McNeillSpotted on #sociology reddit: an "is regarded period" construction. The absence of "well" feels incredibly awkward to me, but apparently the version without "well" was not only more common in older literature but is still more common today (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=is+well+regarded.%2Cis+regarded.&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3).
(Also, I have no idea what the answer to this question is.)
#linguistics #lexicography #syntax #languagevariation #generationaltheory #StraussHowe
