07-18-2016, 10:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 10:24 AM by Eric the Green.)
(07-18-2016, 09:16 AM)Anthony 58 Wrote: He can't change his mind?
Quite unlikely. He has indicated no interest in running, at a time when a campaign should have been begun long ago.
I haven't looked at his chart though.
OK, I looked at it, and according to my system, based mostly on which aspects are actually in the charts of all winning and losing US presidential candidates in history (very slightly-modified by astrological theory), Mr. Angus King has no chance, having only a 5-10 score.
Quote:And could it be that American politics is about to take on a resemblance to the politics of Northern Ireland on the immediate eve of the 1998 Good Friday accord? From "left" to "right," that system featured a "radical" nationalist or "republican" (small "r") party (Sinn Fein) a more moderate nationalist party (the Social Democratic and Labor Party), a moderate unionist party (the Ulster Unionist Party) and a far-right "loyalist" party (the Democratic Unionists, headed by the fiery Rev. Ian Paisley). In the middle stood the Alliance Party, which defiantly rejected any identification with either Protestants or Catholics, and sought to transcend that paradigm.
America already has four of these corresponding spots covered - the far left by Jill Stein, the center-left by Hillary, the center-right by Donald Trump (who is actually reminiscent of the small Progressive Unionist Party in Ulster) and the far right by Gary Johnson. All that is needed is for us to have an Alliance Party clone - and then we would have our first realistic five-way battle for the White House in history (1860 and 1948 were four-way affairs).
Jill Stein is not a nationalist, so, no to your theory, although your 4 general categories are correct.
Trump wants to keep some parts of the New Deal (unlike the far-right such as Paul Ryan), but not the Great Society. Nor does he want any advancement on the New Deal. For the rest, he wants neo-liberal trickle-down economics to the max. Massive tax cuts for the rich, massive debt, and reduced regulation with a smaller safety-net. Supply-side Reaganomics combined with trade wars. Plus xenophobia, "law and order," "second amendment," and an ambiguous and thoughtless foreign policy combining war crimes and a huge military with signals of non-intervention, disloyalty and irresponsibility toward allies, and a temperament of brawling and insults.