Will a nationalist/cosmopolitan divide be the political axis of the coming saeculum?

[David Horn]

(10-29-2016, 04:45 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-29-2016, 04:29 PM)naf140230 Wrote:

(10-29-2016, 09:35 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Many of the vulgarians are proud of Hillary Clinton's label "deplorable", even wearing the word as a badge of pride. Such people would never think of deciding why Hillary Clinton labels them 'deplorable'.

It goes both ways. At the last debate, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a nasty woman. Clinton supporters are wearing that word "nasty" as a badge of pride, too. I have seen this on Twitter.

Which to me isn't a change for the better on either side.

Apparently we are no longer a nation of thinking adults.  We have regressed to middle school and should be ashamed, but we aren't ... at least not enough of us to stop the lunacy.  Are we talking about issues?  Not really.  Both candidates have made statements, but I'm not sure either is serious.  Hillary knows she won't be allowed to do anything and Trump won't want to do anything that might require thinking and hard work.

We have four years of vacuous posturing ahead of us.  Will that aid or retard the transformation of the parties?  2020 is a critical election, much more so than this one, and I don't see anything in the works that will move use in a better direction.  It's obvious that the old structure is dead, and this poisonous election is doing nothing to help.