Election 2020

[Eric the Green]

(11-13-2019, 08:06 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(11-13-2019, 06:17 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-13-2019, 05:17 PM)David Horn Wrote: I'm scoring the next decade for the oligarchs … again.  "The People" hate them, but seem bound to support their policies.  Eventually, AGW and economic stress will trigger a real, impactful response.  I would love to see it.  I hope I do.

I have made predictions correctly about half of the most important events since 1971. I am confident that the people will rise up and shift the nation into a high progressive gear in the 2020s, regardless of who sits at the tiller in the White House and congress in 2021. The progressives will meet resistance, especially at mid-decade, but they will prevail. I have predicted this for decades. So call my bluff; hold my feet to the fire, and remember this prediction!

This exciting decade will be the return of progress, stalled since soon after 1963. It's almost here. We have lived to see it.

Are you sure you didn't mean 1973? That was the winter of discontent when the oil shocks created long lines at gas stations which led to the trend of self serve in all but two states. It was also the time when the oligarchs first launched their takeover crusade, albeit slowly at first and then accelerated under Reagan and seems to have only expanded since with little successful pushback, even Occupy being a big failure.

The regression really accelerated in 1980, but before that, after JFK was assassinated and the first liberal programs were passed afterward, the Vietnam War and then Watergate and the Nixon-Ford admin and the tepid Carter admin slowed progress.