(09-13-2016, 04:47 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: If Clinton wins, I predict that the so called "Alt Right" (which I deem, the Faux "Right" due to their rabidly destructive revolutionary zeal - no true Rightist foments unjust revolution!) will claim the election was "rigged." They will be aided and abetted by a Russian influence and disinfo op, which will plant false stories about "Democrat vote fraud" and "voting machines rigged by the elites." The Russian influence ops will be especially hyperactive in the dark web and on "Alt Right" sites. Some Russian agents are doing face to face humint and are physically embedded in so called "Alt Right" orgs. Such agents are "illegals" with forged passports, visas and identities - they appear to be Americans or Western Europeans according to their documentation and manner. It is possible that direct action by Russian agents may also take place - sabotage, Grey Terror, Pink Terror and other direct operations meant to further inject chaos into the situation.
Because they don't understand people other than themselves (as is the norm for extremists), they will never accept that they got defeated fair and square. Nobody has a monopoly on the truth. 9/11 was not an inside job. Barack Obama was born in the United States and would have been an American citizen by birth because his mother was, the Earth is getting warmer, tobacco is not safe as it is intended to be consumed, poverty is real in America, and the Holocaust is no hoax. But don't confuse an extremist or a hustler with the facts; no, there is always some reality beyond objective truth. That reality is "I want it that way!"
Objective reality may be ugly and inconvenient, but it is all that we can work with, whether to cope with what we have or to improve the world that we live in.
I find Donald Trump a consummate liar whose success has largely been in exploiting a permanent scarcity in real estate in a place that really has lots of well-paying jobs. This fellow makes John Davison Rockefeller II look like a saint by contrast. Rockefeller at least created a new industry in a rough-and-tumble world; Trump simply exploits scarcity by maintaining it in an over-refined world. Just try to imagine Donald Trump getting rich in Akron, Ohio.
Ultimately we Americans will need to de-concentrate our economy so that people don't have to go to the giant, overcrowded cities where the likes of Donald Trump impose in effect a private tax upon people who go where the jobs are to make a living. Easy money for elites is a curse for us all, and not a blessing.
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.