11-10-2016, 01:04 AM
(11-09-2016, 09:38 PM)Marypoza Wrote:(11-09-2016, 08:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-09-2016, 08:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(11-09-2016, 07:52 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-09-2016, 07:23 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Oh, by the way -- I expect America to become a grimmer, drearier, and more joyless place for those not already rich. That is how plutocracy works.
So basically nothing will change.
Not quite. It will accelerate.
I expect the Republican Party and the economic elites behind it to do everything possible to maintain power and leave any ideological alternative, including a humanistic liberalism, blocked out of relevance indefinitely.
In the end the pathology makes a socialist insurrection possible in the event of a crop failure (like global warming that isn't happening), an economic meltdown, or a war for profits going badly
One Yuge problem with that theory bro. The GOP elites hate Trump and Trump's base. They will be absorbed by the Democrats most likely because the party's have switched coats again. I would have thought you'd have noticed that she sounded like the Goldwater girl she always was and he sounds like a Jack Kennedy Democrat.
-- b4 the Donald ran 4 prez he was a Dem
More specifically -- the Republican Party needs the votes, It will never get them from humanistic liberals unless the Democrats nominate someone as cranky as Trump.
Donald Trump will quickly go to the orthodox part of the Republican party upon inauguration. He will not be seeking votes until 2020... so he can betray his erstwhile supporters at will as he does everything that the Corporate wing wants, transforming America into a pure plutocracy that entrenches power forever and ensures that liberals will be forever irrelevant in American political life.
Expect this horrible man to include hypocrisy and betrayal among his repertory of evil. He no more cares about the common man than he cares about a sea anemone. He might as well say "Suffer for my greed, peons!" after he is inaugurated.
2018 should be a slam-dunk tor Republicans with the likeli9hood of picking up a couple of Senate seats and maybe some House seats due to low turnout by people who have largely lost faith in the American political process.
I have no faith in 2020. Democracy in America that depends upon a contest of ideas could be dead that year and afterward. From then on we might as well be a single-party dictatorship until the dissolution of the USA, most likely in World War III.
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.