07-05-2017, 10:11 PM
(07-05-2017, 09:24 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-05-2017, 05:28 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Yes there is. The Democrats need to get a coherent framework of what they are FOR and get that stuff propagated on the outbound information stream.
1. You have an excellent point, but the country is so divided that taking positive steps to improve domestic government performance seems as difficult as repealing Obamacare has been for the Republicans. The unraveling memes suggest that anything the government does will be an expensive boondoggle. To a great degree, the Democrats have given up on improving domestic services to concentrate on not letting things get worse.
2. It seems that Trump's flaws will lead to an administration that continues as it began, but will Trump only discredit Trump, or will the unraveling memes take a hit as well?
1. ... Implies self flagellation by the masses there. If so many are deluded that over bloated simulacrums will fix stuff, then I see a nice reset.
2. This would be the Herbert Hoover scenario. Here, the party in power and the stuff they prattled on about get smacked. Here, Wall Street gets the first smack. Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result... the all American kind, mind you, what we're doing a lot of, if that doesn't work, then do ever more and then that should do the trick. Same mindsets, same mindfucks. Neoliberalism, you see has a limit. It can only keep going if there's a place cheapest to do business on a global scale.
Once that happens the take home pay everywhere is minimized which makes for lower demand. To get profits you have to sell your stuff. So Neoliberals, what does happen there's nobody that can buy pretty much anything? We could have a Game of Thrones [if the people with money start wars with each other] or something like torches and pitchforks [insert whatever modern equivalents thereof could be]
So, if given the current state of affairs, you get a huge "That sucks".
Or, who knows "that's a drag." 
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