I presume you are talking about one time when Reagan didn’t win?
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I think that’s it, exactly.
It’s hard to contemplate the end of the species, so… ya’ know… would you like leftover chicken for dinner?
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No, I’m talking about when he did win after Nixon won. And then the horrible awful fascism that kept winning and winning while leftists chased each other around in circles or accommodated the fascism.
That’s the point. There’s no point in giving up as we’re still here. We might as well begin working together and start by capitalizing on the fact that, for the first time since 1964, there’s no longer a national movement for Calvin Coolidge style economics on the right of Dems.
Now that Drumpf has chased the conservatives away from the POTUS nomination, the national economic populism is on the left.
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Remember, that’s a feature, not a bug. Apparently it is very important to elect people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, because being knowledgeable and experienced is a bad thing.
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Unless he’s black and then it’s “THIS COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLAR WHO HAS HELD ELECTED OFFICE CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1997 IS TOO INEXPERIENCED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.”
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Those are political volunteers, manually dialing people.
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I honestly can’t remember, now that we’re talking about it, but I’m going to keep this in mind and pay attention from now on. I would love to have something to get these guys on! It’s so obnoxious.
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Except that when the debt bubble bursts, it will hit us with an economic
disaster worse than anything we’ve seen before. There’s potential for
literally 75% of America’s wealth to simply vanish.
A lot of that already happened. With the simultaneous crash of both securities and housing markets, the two major forms of middle class wealth: securities and real estate evaporated for most Americans. There is still room for more of it to happen with the student loan debt bubble.
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Thing is, it’s not just student loans- although that’s a huge part of it, don’t get me wrong- they’re just likely to be the catalyst.
Between student loans, mortgages, credit card debt, auto loans, business loans, and municipal bonds, more than 2/3 of our economy is entirely dependent on future payments for merchandise that’s already changed hands. It’s the difference between stocking up a bunch of merchandise and hoping it sells, versus letting people take it all home and hoping they come back to pay for it.
That should scare people more than it does. When the housing market crashed, it didn’t take everything else with it, but I get this impression that it’s like Jenga- the more pieces we pull out of it, the greater the chance that the next one will send the whole thing tumbling down.
And yet, at the same time, if all at once every bank in the world failed and every stock crashed to zero, we would still physically have warehouses full of materials, factories full of equipment, roads full of trucks, stores full of goods, and people everywhere who need, and know how to do, stuff. We could implement an entirely new economic system, but I don’t think it would be as possible to do so after a crash as it would be before.
TL:DR: The next crash might be the economic model rather than the market. The longer we prop up an unsustainable system, the more likely this is.
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If this was really posted in 2012 - and not this year and postdated - this it is brilliant prescience.
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How would this not be predictable from 2012?
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I remember reading this article the day it came out.
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Well, Texas and Florida have a standing invitation to go their own way…courtesy of the other 48 states, even the knuckle-draggers. Many of the other red states, if not all of them, have positive cultural connections with American values along with a significant population of reasonable folks whose idea of “conservative” means exactly what it’s supposed to mean (as opposed to the far-right, hate-spewing lunacy that seems to have gripped the GOP like a bad case of flu.) We’re seeing some of the leading lights step up and say as much.
Stupidity presently seems to rule the day, but it’s destined to be hosed down by people who can think for themselves.
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Look at that photo, it is obviously Trump from above. Who could know in 2012 that Trump would be the Republican nominee in 2016?
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Right down to the cony fur and fake tanner shade. My god, the prescience.
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