08-25-2016, 06:00 PM
(08-25-2016, 03:03 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-25-2016, 01:06 PM)playwrite Wrote: This is the funniest thing on the Internet today!
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Ann Coulter's Fabulous Twitter Meltdown: My Book! My Book!
Who's left to vote for this guy? Cynic Hero and Classic Xer???
41-42% of the electorate. Are you ready to embrace the Republicans and their followers who you blamed for the 2008 crash? Good luck with the banana republic during the crisis. Which revolution scares you more as far as finding your yourself directly caught up in, the French Revolution or the American Revolution? The common belief that Bob and I share is harsh lessons must learned in order to bring change. BTW, Anne Coulter ain't my type.
Unless one has roughly a 40-40-20 split of the electorate, 41% of the electorate will not be enough to get your man elected. In a binary election? 41% of the electorate is about what Mondale got in 1984. Unless Gary Johnson gets 10% or more of the vote this November, Donald Trump is going to get more than 41% of the vote.
By the way -- most Republicans had no culpability in the sesquiannum of 1929-style meltdown (it really was that bad and dangerous). The voters had no culpability. Elected officials did for sponsoring an economic bubble that burst. The generational cycle suggests that we aren't in for another bubble like those of the 1920s or the Double-Zero Decade for a very long time -- maybe the 2080s. We will have other problems.
I can't speak for playwrite; I can speak only for myself. The early part of this decade should have been a wonderful time for major reforms of the system. The Crisis will not be over until we make great institutional reforms of business, academia, and politics. The difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution was to no small part that concentration of wealth and economic power was not so severe outside of slave-holding areas in America as they were throughout France before 1789 -- and that in France before the Revolution the ruling elites acted with callow selfishness and no conscience. Make bureaucratic power practically heritable and the relevant analogue to the US this time will be the French Revolution.
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.