11-09-2016, 02:49 PM
"He won't be that bad".
I expect to hate just about everything that he does as President. Nothing that he did on the campaign gave me any cause to believe that he would be anything other than a vicious boor. I also expect to hate the Republican party as it becomes increasingly monolithic and increasingly consolidates crushing power on the American political system. I expect America to become even more inegalitarian in economic results.
America will have a brain drain. If one has a smart kid and a choice of countries to go to, then one will not choose America where a college degree will put one in deep debt. (If the kids aren't so bright, then the USA will be OK... for kids who can grow up to be waiters, landscapers, and the like. But there's no debt associated with those low-paying jobs). Countries that have declining populations might find American youth of above-average intelligence as solutions to demographic decline. Get a degree in Sweden, and you will likely stay in Sweden.
I expect to hate just about everything that he does as President. Nothing that he did on the campaign gave me any cause to believe that he would be anything other than a vicious boor. I also expect to hate the Republican party as it becomes increasingly monolithic and increasingly consolidates crushing power on the American political system. I expect America to become even more inegalitarian in economic results.
America will have a brain drain. If one has a smart kid and a choice of countries to go to, then one will not choose America where a college degree will put one in deep debt. (If the kids aren't so bright, then the USA will be OK... for kids who can grow up to be waiters, landscapers, and the like. But there's no debt associated with those low-paying jobs). Countries that have declining populations might find American youth of above-average intelligence as solutions to demographic decline. Get a degree in Sweden, and you will likely stay in Sweden.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.