08-05-2016, 12:03 AM
(05-15-2016, 12:31 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Bob, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but in the 1930s congress was just as divided. FDR himself was called everything under the sun. That is a feature of our particular system, not a bug, so getting around it isn't that much of a problem.
In that time it included "Franklin Delano Rosenfeld".
Quote:That being said, I would say that a regeneracy is noted by a recognition that the status quo is not working, and cannot be made to work by tinkering around the edges. Obama has pretty much proved that.
Obama tried to be the New FDR, but this time the super-rich had not been so ruined that they couldn't buy some political support. That is the difference between putting an end to the economic meltdown in the equivalent of early 1931/early 2009 and late 1932/late 2010. The super-rich had themselves a little Tea Party and invited some angry old people.
Quote:On the Republican side you are seeing an alignment behind Trump on the issues of Nationalism, Protectionism and Isolationism. On the Dems you have "Obama's Third Term" and "More of the Same" or at least that is how HRC is running at the moment (it will of course backfire because you don't get this much anger in the electorate if "4 more years" and "More of the Same" could work). Remember Sanders may not have a chance at getting the nomination but he's set the Dems on fire too.
With Donald Trump you get a muddle on economics and foreign affairs -- and scapegoating instead of problem-solving.
Quote:In short as I've said elsewhere what I'm seeing is a realignment of the Parties and they won't fall on the left-right axis for much longer. The economic conditions that gave rise to that in the MillSaec are passing away. Rather we'll see alignment on the libertarian and authoritarian axis.
Maybe Eric the Green has some other idea of how to make that prediction.
Quote:It is my view that following this election the GOP will become, however, begrudgingly the party of social libertarianism and of nationalism, protectionism and isolationism, and that further this will be the basis of building the new order. Otherwise, we will end up in the terminal stages of empire and an implosion sometime around the next 2T.
Bunk. Too many contradictions.
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.