01-11-2017, 10:41 AM
(01-10-2017, 07:49 PM)Bronsin Wrote: Oh I'm not wishing for it. I'm just saying the Dems got slaughtered in the last 2 mid-terms, and I expect that to continue because their voters only turn out for the big ticket elections. Not enough of them care about local elections to make a serious run at anything.
Of course. Political patterns can change rapidly. There is little potential gain for Democrats in 2018, but there are critical elections (gubernatorial) that can ensure that they have a good chance of winning big in 2020. If Democrats lose those elections, then winning enough to change the political agenda of America will be extremely difficult.
I expect Donald Trump and the GOP majority to fail catastrophically in an attempt to reshape the nature of American politics. That is where the permanent change comes from.
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.