10-29-2020, 12:54 PM
(10-29-2020, 11:54 AM)Isoko Wrote: Eric,
If I'm going to be honest, the only way I see the U.S potentially breaking up is with a Trump win. I think if Trump fails to get into the white House this time, the Republicans will abandon Trumpism and quickly go back to good ole Bush era Republicanism.
I just cannot see Tom Cotton jumping on the Trump train in terms of ideology or thought. I think if he becomes the main candidate, he would just be a typical neo con.
Also what we have to remember is that Trumpism itself is on a very big time limit. So is the Republican party as a whole. Trumpism is mainly made up of older white people who "want their old white country back" along with the mainly blue collar voting base. Problem for the Republicans is that the younger generation of millennials have mainly gone into white collar occupations and don't feel particularly economically threatened (as of yet) by globalisation.
Also you have the older voting base who are dying off. The younger voters, particularly gen z, don't have the same attachment to ye olde white America. They grew up with diversity so it is normal to them.
You know, the more I think about it, the more I realise that Trump himself is the last hurrah of the Republican Party. After him, there will really be no point in voting Republican anymore.
Tom is pretty typical trumpist, from what I have heard. We'll see. And I think Republicans are mostly trumpists now. 40% of America has been sick and depraved for a while now. And they have put up some pretty steep blocks that Democrats may not have the guts to tear down. They will stand for one or two decades if not taken down, and the problem is that will be too late to stop climate change, and probably the entrenchment of corporate America and many more deaths from gun massacres and lack of health care.
You are right about the time limit for them. Obviously that has not stopped them from trying to freeze their world in place. They are angry and armed and who knows what they will do.