01-13-2021, 04:07 AM
(01-13-2021, 01:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-13-2021, 12:02 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Possible scenarios now that a Trump dictatorship is no longer possible. In view of some threats to the inauguration, the definitive earthly statement on who will be inaugurated President on January 20, 2021 is now the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which leaves no ambiguity about the 2021 election. Lacking an obvious and unambiguous link to the Almighty, I cannot think of anything more definitive.
1. The Republican Party fades into near-irrelevance for a while and becomes an alternative for those running against corruption in the Big Tent party or as the only meaningful alternative when machine politics entrench pols. It revives in the wake of some economic distress (like those involving post-WWII reconversion to a civilian economy) or perhaps (because we are no longer early in the Crisis of 2020 -- more likely near its end) as a cultural struggle emerges in the next Awakening Era. Such parallels what happened to the party of Lincoln after the Great Depression.
2. The Republican Party dies as did the Federalists (about 1820) or Whigs (about 1850), with the Democratic Party becoming an unwieldy Big Tent party that accepts a wide variety of positions among its membership. It is the only game in town (think of South Africa at the end of Apartheid), and after a couple of decades later it rifts as incompatible factions form within it. Those Parties become Parties in their own right. That is how the Free Soil (now Republican) Party.
3. The Republican Party becomes increasingly a fringe party as the Democratic Party starts to represent something like 60-70% of the vote. The Democratic Party enters an era of Good Feelings (there is no more apt time than a 1T for such), and the Democratic Party separates in a way mor ereminiscent of some other near-two-Party systems as in Germany or the UK (Christian Democrats and Social Democrats; Conservatives and Labour; paradoxically the US system was more like the Irish political divide, with neither Party quite calling itself socialist).
We are in what is most likely a swift transition to another Skowronek Era in which the political language and strongest agendas are very different from those of the preceding era. Donald Trump is becoming a scapegoat, and with him go down any political tendencies that fostered or went along with him.
A Trump dictatorship wasn't possible and would never have been possible.
There were plenty of signs of dictatorial behavior which would have intensified in a second term. Trump's style of management is despotic in business, and he carries that over as President. Career businessmen are poor politicians almost as a rule. The government is not like a business.
Quote:A Trump dictatorship is a figment of imagination and a constant theme used by Left Wing demagogues like yourself who are into spreading Left Wing propaganda via the media and internet.
Are you saying that Trump had no chance of getting re-elected? That would have stopped him. Whoops! He encouraged people to nullify the election on his behalf. Mercifully he has failed.
Don't worry too much about having no second chance at some right-wing authoritarian with a despotic streak getting within range of the Presidency, especially should there be some economic, military, or diplomatic calamity. Millions of Americans would gladly sacrifice their essential liberty for economic betterment or for assertions of national pride.
Quote:Now Biden is another story. Biden or Harris and the Democrats representing and function like a dictatorship is much more legit.
Trump bled the Treasury to get re-elected. Farm subsidies to salve the effects of a trade war overcompensated for lost farm income. Such decided some states that usually go to Democrats in Democratic wins.
Quote:You see it could vote to change some rules and give itself more power than it deserves.
I hope that the Biden Administrations does things in one respect the old fashioned way: sponsoring legislation that allows people to make their lives better. Changing the tax laws to favor small business over monopolistic, vertically-integrated behemoths? Raising the ceiling (or lifting it altogether) on high personal incomes, especially from executive compensation -- including bonuses for putting employees out of work or exporting jobs to cheap-labor countries? If the economy starts to falter, then pushing big infrastructure projects that might get some Republican votes in the Senate -- let us say replacing US 83 with a freeway from the Canadian border to the Mexican border? (That would be a tough thing for twelve Republican Senators to pass up).
Serve the People well, and you get re-elected.
Quote:If you had a set of eyes and a mind that worked properly, you would be able to see and learn that what we've been talking about all along is true and you'd understand
Asperger's gives me problems that have no connection to logical thought. Hypersensitivity to sound and light, finding little joy in what many people find fun, and having eccentric interests mark me.
Quote: how that directly relates to you, your life and your immediate future as well. You better wise up before it's to late. Oh, its already to late. Welcome to the 4T.
Wise up about what? Does that mean sharing your political views? Hell no!
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.