01-09-2017, 02:46 AM
The Catch-22 with President Obama was political and partisan. Had he failed to back Big business in 2009, then the economic meltdown that began in 2009 would not have stopped so soon and been reversed. His Party would have endured severe losses in the 2010 election and in 2012, and he would have been one-and-done. By 2013 Republicans would have been able to begin their dreams of destroying unions, cutting wages, abolishing laws against workplace dangers and environmental degradation, shifting taxes from the Master Class to everyone else, privatizing everything that could somehow turn a profit, and perhaps establishing a harsh "Christian" morality in which abortion, homosexuality, and contraception are outlawed.
But his recovery was not swift enough for people to recognize it as such.
Question: would the Republican leadership of a basically one-Party state have been better in 2013 than as it will emerge in 2017? That is the realm of speculative fiction.
I expect Donald Trump to be unspeakably awful. Politics in a single-Party state as we are becoming is nothing more than enforcement of the desires of the well-connected. The question is whether the Republican Party will ever allow any transition of power to anything else.
But his recovery was not swift enough for people to recognize it as such.
Question: would the Republican leadership of a basically one-Party state have been better in 2013 than as it will emerge in 2017? That is the realm of speculative fiction.
I expect Donald Trump to be unspeakably awful. Politics in a single-Party state as we are becoming is nothing more than enforcement of the desires of the well-connected. The question is whether the Republican Party will ever allow any transition of power to anything else.
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.