Visser reviews Wilber's book on Trump

Following up on this post, Frank Visser wrote this essay. Given Wilber's analysis I must ask: Is Twampland a 'healthy' expression of a lower level? It doesn't seem so. And if not, how exactly is that going to get green to be 'healthy' in Wilber's view? And what exactly are we to 'integrate' from a lower level, since transitional structures like worldviews transcend and replace, not include, previous ones? Wilber himself seems a muddled mess of performative contradiction here.

I will agree that liberals need to import from conservatives strength of conviction and a healthy fighting spirit. Liberal and conservative constituents alike want their representatives to fight for their values. Liberals have failed miserably with a few exceptions like Sanders and Warren.  


I'd argue that it was the appropriation of the Democratic Party by big business and Wall Street that corrupted its previous FDR values. The Dem Party itself regressed with exceptions like Sanders and Warren. True progressives are the healthy expression of liberalism. Sanders' form of progressive populism would have kicked Trampler's authoritarian populism back to the boondocks (swamp) from whence it came. And will in the future when Warren runs for President.