03-01-2018, 02:15 PM
(03-01-2018, 11:17 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(03-01-2018, 11:01 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The youngest Boomers are still in their late 50s, so Boomers are not yet in their last act on the historical sceneI don't necessarily disagree, but when I look at the political scene, I don't see a lot of candidates. I suppose Pence would qualify. Governor Baker of Massachusetts would qualify, except I don't see how a liberal Republican could gain traction in national politics.
At this point I predict that anyone involved with Donald Trump will be discredited. Mike Pence is unelectable -- just too far to the right of the middle-point of the political spectrum. He was headed for defeat in a governor's race in Indiana, a state decidedly to the right of center.
Democrats have a quarterback controversy for the Presidential nomination.
All in all I see Donald Trump as an unmitigated disaster except as someone who does everything so wrong that anyone who follows him can do the exact opposite and generally do right. I see the chaos in the White House, with high level turnover almost resembling that of a fast-food place. I see a vindictive President not in full control of his emotions who has little regard for precedent and protocol.
it is also possible that America is becoming less polarized by region on political affiliation. I see the biggest losses of support for the President, according to polling, in states in which he won by the largest margins.
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.