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[Poemer]

Is Obama's presidency going to be the major beginning of a fourth era?

An interesting viewpoint on American political history that ponders the question:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/11/07/fourth_republic/index.html

[Ya-ta Boy]

Interesting article.

I'm especially struck by the alternating Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian periods. In my opinion the writer was over doing the 72 year cycle, but interesting nonetheless.

[Poemer]

It does seem a bit odd that the cycles would happen to all be roughly the same length.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Yeah. Something tells me that we can't expect major technological innovations to happen on cue every 72 years. I think that was a weak part of the thesis.

However, the idea of a Hamiltonian activist government style followed by a Jeffersonian backlash might have something to it. I wouldn't mind reading more about the authors' idea.