- 31 May 2021 17:30
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This is a real possibility Drlee but I think changes and resistance to those changes are going to be a lot bloodier than you think. People who are without much options become present day Colombia. It is human. I think our species has variation but how humans respond to lack of opportunity, mass discrimination, loss of standards in living, and autocratic governments is kind of predictable. Americans are kind of spoiled compared to other nationalities. They are used to functioning water systems, and electricity that is reliable and at least some food stamps and food banks, and gov't housing and social security checks. Once that is taken away? Fire in the mind is what is coming.
You see it on the right with the Trump followers. But there will be militants on the Left. It will be very very bloody.
That happens when you deliberately destabilize a nation with sellout politicians and competing nations wanting to take the power position from the USA away.
Everyone is getting used to those mass shootings that grow more consistent as time goes by.
Many youth can't afford to buy homes now. And people are selling in expensive markets and buying in much lower cost ones. I am renting to a guy from Chicago who bought three properties here for what he could never even get a studio apartment for in Chicago. He makes money remote and can have a much more comfortable standard of living leaving the USA. Many people will continue to do that as remote work paid in dollars and living in other nations where having dollars is financially advantageous and they avoid the issues with always never owning anything for 30+ years of paying mortgages with interest and elevated housing prices.
Drlee wrote:This movement is about three things. God, Guns and Gays. These are the three things that the leaders of this republican party marketing unit are using in service of racism against people with dark skin. There is absolutely no doubt that Trump and his followers are racist. They freely admit it. There is no doubt that republicans see people with dark skin as existential threats to their power. They are a threat to republican power. The Republican Party admits it and openly engages in minority voter suppression.
There should be no debate here about whether this is happening. It is quite obvious that it is. It is abundantly clear that the Republican Party knows that it can use talk of God, Guns and Gays to rally white people to its flag. They are doing it openly and quite publicly.
The only real debate should be be to determine what the party's ultimate goals are. Of course they are serving the money stream which, for them, has traditionally come from big business interests. But this goes farther. Are foreign powers behind this? Of course.
Russia and China are served by the destruction of nominal democracy in the US. We have been the proof that their oligarchies (Russian) and one party totalitarian rule (China) are less than desirable. That is not necessarily true now. Reagan's "Shining City on a Hill" died nationally with the election of Trump and at the state level long before that in a majority of states. Does the average republican politician understand this? Nope. And they have been taught to see just the opposite. Is it a masterful piece of espionage? Or are the despots of the world just sitting back and gleefully watching the only remaining check to their power join the club?
The Republican Party plan is a winning one. Consider:
There are protests against police which have become more general and less about brutality. There are protests and a great deal of attention being paid to women's issues of harassment in the marketplace. As far as I can tell there has not been a single major protest in favor of voting rights. Not one. A few protesters here and there. As soon as the mid terms there will be millions of democratic voters who will no longer vote because they either will not figure out the new rules or will find them inconvenient. Republicans will retake the house and senate in all likelihood. This will "bake in" the republican rule of the country for decades.
Will Trump come back? Probably not. He is too old. My guess is that it may be Paul Ryan next in line. That is why Trump is all over him right now. Trump will probably be taken down personally by his former business dealings. My guess is that New York will get him. But if they don't and Trump stays healthy, he will be the next president, will have the house and the senate and will not have to worry about reelection or impeachment. Imagine that.
The aforementioned is what I think will happen. It will happen while the democrats are eating their own. As one after another democratic power figure falls to its own party orthodoxy because he made a joke (ala Franken) or had sex with a drunk girlfriend fifty years ago, or did not hire female clerks, or hired too many female clerks, or owned a house on a street built on land that belonged to an extinct nomadic Native American tribe, the republicans will be quietly be saying, "come to my house white male, there is room in my tent for you. Come here white woman. We will protect your babies from marrying a black and your husband's job from Mexicans".
And it will work beautifully. Will democracy die in America? It died long ago. But if you relish the last vestiges of it then things will look the same. As long as you are white.
Christianity serves this movement because, like all religions, it sees itself as the source of moral compass. It does not see itself as the rule maker but rather the rule follower. It is, after all, possessed of a morally justifiable excuse for sexism, and homophobia. It is in the Bible, right? Women belong to their men and homosexuality is an abomination to God. It logically follows that God is mad at America and punishing us with plagues, loss of power in the world and an invasion of illegal migrants. Right? If we get back to 1950 He will save us from the liberals, communists and lawless blacks who want to destroy the country.
All that really remains is to see is which face this inevitable right wing power shift will put on. If it is Trump or his anointed (probably son) it will be very Mussolini like. Uniforms, guns and pageantry. If it is the Randian wing like Ryan it will just quietly disassemble the social safety net and let minorities and the elderly fend for themselves. They will likely need boomers for about three more presidential election cycles then they can just shut the door on Social Security and Medicare. But by that time the US will look more like 1950 but without the socialist "pay us back" WWII generation as a balance.
It is, at this point, inevitable. Whites will retake America under the Republican banner and I see no real opposition to it at this point, nor any motivation for the Republicans to try to build a bigger tent. And it will happen with a whimper and not a shout. And if it should start to falter because blacks and other minorities take to the streets? Guns.
This is a real possibility Drlee but I think changes and resistance to those changes are going to be a lot bloodier than you think. People who are without much options become present day Colombia. It is human. I think our species has variation but how humans respond to lack of opportunity, mass discrimination, loss of standards in living, and autocratic governments is kind of predictable. Americans are kind of spoiled compared to other nationalities. They are used to functioning water systems, and electricity that is reliable and at least some food stamps and food banks, and gov't housing and social security checks. Once that is taken away? Fire in the mind is what is coming.
You see it on the right with the Trump followers. But there will be militants on the Left. It will be very very bloody.
That happens when you deliberately destabilize a nation with sellout politicians and competing nations wanting to take the power position from the USA away.
Everyone is getting used to those mass shootings that grow more consistent as time goes by.
Many youth can't afford to buy homes now. And people are selling in expensive markets and buying in much lower cost ones. I am renting to a guy from Chicago who bought three properties here for what he could never even get a studio apartment for in Chicago. He makes money remote and can have a much more comfortable standard of living leaving the USA. Many people will continue to do that as remote work paid in dollars and living in other nations where having dollars is financially advantageous and they avoid the issues with always never owning anything for 30+ years of paying mortgages with interest and elevated housing prices.
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en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
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