08-23-2018, 03:00 PM
(08-23-2018, 02:44 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-23-2018, 12:06 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-22-2018, 10:05 PM)Bad Dog Wrote: Pence makes me want Dan Quayle back.
Trump isn't going anywhere, and neither is his base. In Britain, the PM would have been ousted in a week.
Maybe the Brits could loan us a Royal or three?
True demagogues create their own politics, as Trump certainly has. If it fails in 2020, then no permanent damage will have been done. If it continues into another Presidential term, then we're faced with the real question: can a cult of personality rule an advanced country without breaking it beyond repair? I honestly can't say yes, as much as I would like to, which should be scary enough to give us pause.
Dude, the country is already broken beyond repair at this point. All that's needed is a 4T level crisis to get the ball moving on the idea of separating blue America from the rest of America. I'd say blue America has ten years before America lets go of them and sends them adrift to fend for themselves in a changing world with small tyrants who have more money and greater military capabilities than the blue state of whatever name the blues choose, whatever left wing ideological "ism" the majority prefer at the time and whatever flag the majority of blues like the best.
America wasn't so badly broken when Obama was President, so the damage that President Trump has done can either be stopped or reversed.
In view of recent polling, "Blue" America is expanding.
Trump is just beginning people who usually vote Republican.
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.