04-30-2019, 03:59 PM
(04-30-2019, 01:22 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I think we will have a two term liberal President. His name is Donald J. Trump. He will be followed by an Xer who in a different era would be a Big City Business Democrat but by then Nationalism-Populism will have swept the neo-cons out of the GOP and they will go back to the Democrats from whence they came in the 1960s if they are even still around.
There is a far greater chance of the Democrats splitting in 2020 and the Greens absorbing them in 2024.
Donald Trump is not a liberal. I see people getting a hard lesson in civics from President Trump -- warnings to never vote again for a demagogue, that truth is not so much a convenience as it is something to discern in a test that a smart high-school kid can do (truth is internally consistent, and anything not internally consistent is either a lie or foolishness), that the Rule of Law is essential to, if not sufficient for, a workable democracy, that religious and ethnic bigotry are dangerous as well as counterproductive, and that words have meaning in political discourse. Oh, yes -- elections matter. Choose integrity over ideology.
If you saw the last Quinnipiac poll (out today), it showed Joe Biden with 38% of the support among Democrats. The quarterback controversy may be disappearing before the primary season is really underway. It's down to four people with 8% or higher support, and Joe Biden is the decisive leader.
70% of Americans would vote for a gay male, only although 36% think that most Americans are ready. (Better a gay man than someone who brags about grabbing women by their "kitty-cats"!)
The Millennial Generation is decidedly liberal on economics, at least in the FDR-Truman-JFK-LBJ sense. This generation is just starting to vote in large numbers, as shown in the 2018 midterm election.
52% of voters say that they will definitely not vote to re-elect Donald Trump. 33% say that they will, and 13% will consider voting for him.
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-det...aseID=2617
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.