06-05-2020, 05:51 AM
(06-05-2020, 05:45 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-04-2020, 01:49 PM)Isoko Wrote: Mickey,
I was thinking the same. If Trump wins, expect the left to go bat crazy insane. They will make the George Floyd riots look like picnic with Barney the Dinosaur. And the media will help continue to inflame it even more.
You know, it wouldn't surprise me if the left started civil war like conditions.
Unlikely. With the economy in tatters, the ineffectual virus response and the questionably legal use of force against the protestors, Trump has likely flipped the flip flop. We have gone back and forth between parties several times during the unraveling. There is more than enough to justify it flipping again.
The question is if the mood shift that occurs with a crisis repeats. During the unravelling the new values and old are debated, compromised and argued over. In the regeneracy the new values triumph. In the high the old values get sat on. I know of no reason this shouldn't happen again.
After all that as gone on, it is practically impossible for the President to be re-elected except through the libertarian bugaboo of "force and fraud", in which case the President has no credibility except his ability to do things to people. Of course, in a full-blown dictatorship that implies compulsory exile, job loss, financial ruin, torture, forced labor, and outright murder.
Trump would revive a 3T degeneracy in a High, which would be an unmitigated disaster.
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.