03-04-2020, 10:48 PM
Are you sure that many Millennials didn't vote for Biden?
Some may be scared that Bernie Sanders loses to Donald Trump, in which case America becomes an even nastier place to live in a second term of Trump.
Nobody gets everything that he wants in political life except under flukish circumstances. Most of us don't get what we want in economic life, either, but that is no excuse to destroy the industrial basis of such prosperity as there is.
Realities of the generational cycle may compel a moderate Democrat to take radical measures to meet a bad situation. Maybe the economy will tank this year because it has shaky fundamentals (inadequate savings, overpriced securities, and a near-certain credit crunch). If Trump is defeated and the economy has not yet tanks -- then he might be vindictive enough to tank the economy just in time to ensure that the Democratic President and Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress get to face such while loud propagandists of the Right insist on being exempted from taxes while workers endure Third-World pay and working conditions. The economic elites have learned one lesson from the meltdown of 2008 -- be more ruthless and demanding, and get more concessions. Don't fool yourself -- they would like repeats of the 2010 and 2014 elections, only for the results to be set permanently and even more to the benefit of the elites. Serfdom can be profitable; just think of Nazi Germany, where one could not strike, slow down, or seek to change employment without the consent of an employer. (For all the other, more infamous and horrific realities of Nazi Germany that had no obvious connection to that, Nazi Germany was a workers' Hell. That worked well for shareholders, executives, and party hacks, though).
Some may be scared that Bernie Sanders loses to Donald Trump, in which case America becomes an even nastier place to live in a second term of Trump.
Nobody gets everything that he wants in political life except under flukish circumstances. Most of us don't get what we want in economic life, either, but that is no excuse to destroy the industrial basis of such prosperity as there is.
Realities of the generational cycle may compel a moderate Democrat to take radical measures to meet a bad situation. Maybe the economy will tank this year because it has shaky fundamentals (inadequate savings, overpriced securities, and a near-certain credit crunch). If Trump is defeated and the economy has not yet tanks -- then he might be vindictive enough to tank the economy just in time to ensure that the Democratic President and Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress get to face such while loud propagandists of the Right insist on being exempted from taxes while workers endure Third-World pay and working conditions. The economic elites have learned one lesson from the meltdown of 2008 -- be more ruthless and demanding, and get more concessions. Don't fool yourself -- they would like repeats of the 2010 and 2014 elections, only for the results to be set permanently and even more to the benefit of the elites. Serfdom can be profitable; just think of Nazi Germany, where one could not strike, slow down, or seek to change employment without the consent of an employer. (For all the other, more infamous and horrific realities of Nazi Germany that had no obvious connection to that, Nazi Germany was a workers' Hell. That worked well for shareholders, executives, and party hacks, though).
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.
