01-01-2023, 06:26 AM
Donald Trump will continue to have his die-hard supporters but no new ones. As those die off he will increasingly be an object of derision and contempt as a model of how not to be President. See the fascist (British!) windbags of the 1930's that the Monty Python crew mock. It will include not only to not be a despot in style but to not do crazy stuff. "Dull but effective" will prevail in American life, with people recognizing that political results matter far more than eccentric entertainment in politics. If people want entertainment, people will find even politicians saying "see a movie", "watch a sporting event", "add a tier of cable or a streaming service", "attend a concert", or something to that effect.
Political life could be downright bland. People will no longer accept panis et circenses in public life, being more concerned with politicians meeting basic needs or promoting economic growth. Politics will be about making life more congenial irrespective of recent and current poverty in communities and regions.
I expect the Homeland generation to fill a gaping hole in American life in the form of self-effacing comedy as did the American Silent. Although there will be portents analogous to GIs Morey Amsterdam, Lucille Ball, Carl Reiner, Rodney Daingerfield, Redd Foxx, Don Adams, and Don Knotts among the Millennial Generation, the Homeland Generation will start opening up, if tentatively, with humor that erodes the stuffiness of the time. Think also of Chespirito in Mexico and the British zanies of the Monty Python crew.
Political life could be downright bland. People will no longer accept panis et circenses in public life, being more concerned with politicians meeting basic needs or promoting economic growth. Politics will be about making life more congenial irrespective of recent and current poverty in communities and regions.
I expect the Homeland generation to fill a gaping hole in American life in the form of self-effacing comedy as did the American Silent. Although there will be portents analogous to GIs Morey Amsterdam, Lucille Ball, Carl Reiner, Rodney Daingerfield, Redd Foxx, Don Adams, and Don Knotts among the Millennial Generation, the Homeland Generation will start opening up, if tentatively, with humor that erodes the stuffiness of the time. Think also of Chespirito in Mexico and the British zanies of the Monty Python crew.
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.