11-09-2016, 06:38 PM
Needed addendum: anything that goes well in America under Donald Trump will be sheer luck after the positive effects of the Obama Administration fade into irrelevancy.
One good thing about being irrelevant because one is a liberal: one will not be pulled into his hare-brained or even criminal deeds. Once one's associates get into power (whether in 2020 or 2056) one will have no obligation to use the services of those involved in malfeasance ranging from extremism to corruption and violations of human rights. Democrats have much to lose and little to gain in the Senatorial elections of 2018, and the gerrymander of 2010 and likely voter suppression will probably give Trump more stooges in the House of Lobbyists.
2020? I expect the Republicans to do everything to win the election -- even violence.
One good thing about being irrelevant because one is a liberal: one will not be pulled into his hare-brained or even criminal deeds. Once one's associates get into power (whether in 2020 or 2056) one will have no obligation to use the services of those involved in malfeasance ranging from extremism to corruption and violations of human rights. Democrats have much to lose and little to gain in the Senatorial elections of 2018, and the gerrymander of 2010 and likely voter suppression will probably give Trump more stooges in the House of Lobbyists.
2020? I expect the Republicans to do everything to win the election -- even violence.
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.