11-09-2016, 02:37 PM
(11-09-2016, 12:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-09-2016, 09:45 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The only way for Donald Trump to elevate white working-class people above non-white, non-Anglo, non-Christian, and non-straight people is to establish a system resembling Apartheid.
Got one of those bumper stickers that says "My tough son beat your honor student"? If so then you are the shame.
Americans have proven that they have no shame. Polls say they knew Trump was unfit, and was selfish and mean. He had a greater disapproval rating than Hillary. They voted for him anyway. They want to make America awful again. They will probably succeed.
I am convinced that the Republicans will rig future elections so that they can not lose, and so that they can maintain their nightmarish New Feudalism indefinitely. They will have no willingness to relinquishing government of the economic elites, by the economic elites, and for the economic elites at any time. Barack Obama is the last Democratic President that we will have until the Capitalist Reich of America comes to an end. Tammy Duckworth will probably be the last Democratic Senator who defeats a Republican incumbent.
Democrats have practically no chance of any political gains in 2018. 2020? Maybe 2052 or so.
Republicans might tantalize us with an election that looks as if Democrats have a chance, only to make sure that the Democrats fall short. Then they make the concession "maybe next time". There will be no chance.
We may be becoming an effective single-party state. We might be a bit more subtle than Cuba, but that's not saying much.
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.