Will McCain Death, Midterms & Legal Scandals Finally Be Enough?

[TheNomad]

(08-28-2018, 01:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(08-28-2018, 10:44 AM)David Horn Wrote: You ask: "Will McCain Death, Midterms & Legal Scandals Finally Be Enough?"  
Answer: No.

There is a cult of personality out there, fueled by the worst aspects of anyone's personality": racism, resentment, hate and schadenfreude.  It won't go away until something much worse takes its place: perhaps war or financial meltdown.  I can't  total discount the possibility of disenchantment, but I see no evidence of it.  Most of what constitutes Trump's base has been waiting for a hater for a long time.  Now that they have one, they aren't going to quit him lightly.

Very well said. My only hope is that just enough will be disenchanted to empower the opposition. Then we will go on from there, continuing to face their wrath until they are defeated decisively enough for a pause we know as a first turning to begin. It only takes a 6% majority in the midterms, and 77,774 votes in three states in the presidential election. The Trump base is a strong majority of a minority. Peal off the minority of that minority, maybe just 4% of it, and the red tide is held at bay. Which means, the neo-liberal, militarist, gun totin', and social-conservative/hating minorities are held at bay, despite their built in, constitutional advantages and their cheating.

IMO you are right, except I think perhaps (I hate I have to choose between red and blue I hope that ends) blue will have shown to have evolved in such a way that more people will be inclined to see it from there.  Meaning, a lateral shift in everything.  But I don't like that.  It's the best of 2 options but still only 2 options.  In the new cycle, obviously blue will be in control, as they always are in a first turning.  When you say it that way, what IS blue or red?  Just a set of core ideals I think.  I'm saying blue will open the tent wider and that's how it will prevail.  I think blue always alienates the other side by being too exclusive or something... maybe pandering to the widest fringe which scares the populace not IN any fringe area demographic.  Red scares people the same way.  It's identical.  That's why I hate it.  I do believe there is such a thing as false left/right paradigm. 

It's not real.

However, it seems like America hated Hillary Clinton more than they did not want the current person.  We always end up "choosing" based on who we dislike the least.  That's just horrible.  Voting - itself - makes me ill, how can any of us justify any choice we have ever made in our life which only had 2 options?

Can anyone anecdote on that?

I wanted to buy a home, I looked at 2 physical properties.
I wanted to partner up with someone, I met 2 people.
I wanted a career and only applied to 2 firms.

Not So Much.  So, that's for anyone ready to pull the "vote-and-participate" pistol.

Oh, and I'm a long-time resident of a huge city - incorporating huge revenue for tax............. and I've only been to 2 restaurants here... and ended up choosing one which I go to all the time, whenever I eat out.

Is it real life or some fantasy?

I dwell in a Superpower nation and only ever have 2 choices. 



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