Election 2020

[Kinser79]

Since you somehow managed to break the tags PBR...

Quote:...and we end up with a political system that dies much as the Soviet Union did -- as a country with a brain drain that becomes technologically backward, in which crony capitalism makes the formation of small business nearly impossible. That sort of order has a proclivity for starting wars that it loses, as is so of most fascist regimes.

Except that isn't how the USSR was socially organized at all.  Moscow and Leningrad got everything they wanted, the rest of the country got nothing.  Furthermore crony capitalism arises not under laissez-faire but under strict regulation.  The rural population rather than the urban is more reluctant to let government bureaucrats regulate everything.  Finnally the warrior class comes overwhelmingly from red and rural states  most of the people there prefer our traditional isolationism.

Given you have gotten everything backwards I have to question if you actually thought about this or are just spouting some canned response someone gave you.  Given your propensity for the latter, it probably is the latter.

Quote:Such will happen after I am dead.

Nope such would happen immediately after the Electoral College is abolished or effectively abolished.  We have been having a cold civil war for a number of years now, like the Cold War itself it can go hot at a moment's notice and for little provocation.

Quote:Trump's approval ratings are remarkably stable. Styx is saying things that are technically possible, but unlikely.

Styx's track record is far far better than yours or for that matter Nate Silver's.  But then again he's not a paid shill for anyone.  He's a rather smart citizen merely speaking his mind--or as the left calls them these days a "conspiracy theorist".

Quote:The three emperors that I showed were Nero, Caligula, and Commodus, prime examples of what is potentially dangerous about an Emperor who pays too much attention to his claims to divinity.

The left can't and doesn't meme.  Boomers that are leftists--like you are--are particularly poor at meme-ing or understanding memes.  And given the Memetic nature of the internet, which is the main form of communication these days they will continue to lose until they start learning how to produce and distribute good memes.  But that is unlikely...the left likes central planning too much and memes are by their nature free market because forced memes never ever go viral.

That is probably why the left is calling for political correctness and censorship most strongly on the largest current social media platforms.  Ultimately this will destroy those platforms and they will be replaced.  Minds is already bigger than Twitter and Gab will replace Facebook.