12-06-2016, 09:25 PM
(12-06-2016, 09:04 PM)radind Wrote:(12-06-2016, 09:00 PM)FLBones Wrote: The fifties were the last great era in America.The USA was still coasting after the victory in WWII.
It was a great time, not likely to return.
It will return -- if Donald Trump and the hard Right are repudiated. Otherwise America will be back except for technology in the early-industrial era in urban areas and and a Jim Crow-like era in rural areas. Think of Franco's Spain or Khomeini's Iran with Apartheid-style racism.
The electorates of 2010-2016 are consistent with such a nightmare, the sort of place that people live to get away from for more freedom and opportunity. Somehow I expect that to get a harsh correction, and a Depression like that of the 1930s or some military disasters might be what it takes to set America on the right course.
Enough Americans are simply too good for a repressive and inequitable regime. Of course I expect Donald Trump to be a catastrophic failure as President and Mike Pence has values consistent with about a quarter of the population.
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.