01-06-2017, 12:45 PM
One thing is certain: Obama did not leave America in ashes. According to this theory, Donald trump can be a transformative president only in the sense that he turns glory into rubble. Obama is a mirror image of Ronald Reagan except for sharing the foreign policy.
I can imagine a Donald Trump disaster more than I can imagine a success. Quite frankly, I would rather be in another country for the duration . How does Uruguay sound? I do not mean "oo-rroo-gwye". I can see him foisting a bad economic climate for 95% of Americans on behalf of the upper 2%, causing NATO to splinter just as Vladimir Putin sets his dreams upon incorporating parts of the former Russian and Soviet Empires, getting caught in huge corruption scandals, and fostering a 1929-style crash.
I doubt that there is another Obama in the wings. I do not mean "Michelle", although she seems to have far more political acumen than most political figures. Obama's type usually comes after a Crisis is over and settled.
Donald Trump is so awful with delusions grandeur as huge as his integrity and political acumen are slight that I can hardly imagine him succeeding except as a stooge of the lobbyists who really control Congress that I can imagine him (and much of Congress) going down in a military coup. Success for him is in Making America Great Again -- if one's idea of 'greatness' is the 1920s. I am old enough to remember plenty of people who lived in the 1920s and the Great Depression -- and for all the hardships of the Great Depression, they had little good to say of the 1920s.
I can imagine a Donald Trump disaster more than I can imagine a success. Quite frankly, I would rather be in another country for the duration . How does Uruguay sound? I do not mean "oo-rroo-gwye". I can see him foisting a bad economic climate for 95% of Americans on behalf of the upper 2%, causing NATO to splinter just as Vladimir Putin sets his dreams upon incorporating parts of the former Russian and Soviet Empires, getting caught in huge corruption scandals, and fostering a 1929-style crash.
I doubt that there is another Obama in the wings. I do not mean "Michelle", although she seems to have far more political acumen than most political figures. Obama's type usually comes after a Crisis is over and settled.
Donald Trump is so awful with delusions grandeur as huge as his integrity and political acumen are slight that I can hardly imagine him succeeding except as a stooge of the lobbyists who really control Congress that I can imagine him (and much of Congress) going down in a military coup. Success for him is in Making America Great Again -- if one's idea of 'greatness' is the 1920s. I am old enough to remember plenty of people who lived in the 1920s and the Great Depression -- and for all the hardships of the Great Depression, they had little good to say of the 1920s.
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.