https://news.yahoo.com/pro-trump-rally-goers-blame-235312990.html

Interest waning, maybe?

gzt: Six more years?

You'll need headphones for this video if sensitive ears are close by.  It's as rude as all heck, but I howled with laughter when it was sent to me.  Apologies if this has been posted before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWVJMGBBS3Q

The twice-impeached president’s tenure in office was a festival of democratic norm-breaking, culminating in the “big lie” about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection. A second term would likely bring more of the same — only this time Trump would have four years of practice under his belt.

 

 

To help game out the consequences of another Trump administration, I turned to 21 experts in the presidency, political science, public administration, the military, intelligence, foreign affairs, economics and civil rights. They sketched chillingly plausible chains of potential actions and reactions that could unravel the nation. “I think it would be the end of the republic,” says Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz, one of the historians President Biden consulted in August about America’s teetering democracy. “It would be a kind of overthrow from within. … It would be a coup of the way we’ve always understood America.”

 

 

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neb: What Will Happen to America if Trump Wins Again?

 

+1   This long Washington Post article (10 October 2022) is frighteningly plausible.

The scenarios are ... grim.

headings only:

Phase 1: Trump seizes control of the government … and installs super loyalists.

 

• He governs without Senate advice and consent.
• He creates a MAGA civil service.
  
  

Phase 2: Trump deploys the military aggressively at home, while retreating abroad.

 

• He uses the military to promote his own political power.
• American global leadership is finished - much to Putin’s delight.
• Intelligence work is harmed.
  
  

Phase 3: Political violence and democratic collapse?

 

• Ideological, racial and ethnic tensions ramp up.
• The bonds that bind the Union loosen.
• The chances of civil war increase.

Americas problem is it has NEVER been the country it proclaims to be

It is NOT the leader in any social metric except

Prison population

Military spending

After that, for education , health, welfare, law and order, honesty/corruption, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom, happiness, life expectancy, infant mortality, violent crime, social mobility, equality, etc etc etc etc the USA is well down the list.

They tell themselves how great they are, they just refuse to look to see if it is true.

They are ignorant about the world and the people in it, heck lots are ignorant about their own country.

sir1963:America's problem is it has NEVER been the country it proclaims to be

Amen to that, brother. Actually,the USA is a lot like Trump in many ways, which helps explain his popularity.

sir1963:

 

Americas problem is it has NEVER been the country it proclaims to be

 

..............

 

They tell themselves how great they are, they just refuse to look to see if it is true.

 

They are ignorant about the world and the people in it, heck lots are ignorant about their own country.

America can never be a country it claims to be due to two things; money and how fast and hard you can kick the other person down to make it.

I would say the two major reasons, right from the Mayflower, for immigration into the USA is; economic gain and religious and/or political freedom. (religion & politics usually go together)

Economic opportunity being the biggie. And this is where the rub is. The various nationalities thought they were all better than each other and they economically and politicly fought each other over economic territory and superiority. The later immigrates became the political footballs of the early immigrates as they are seen as trying to usurp them, who now call themselves genuine Americans.

Americans have never realised that the very nature of their very diverse social and cultural origins is their strength. They believe in the 'all mighty dollar' and the freedom to do and say what they want when they want no matter how hard it kicks their neighbours down as it is all about how high each of them can claw their way up the social economic ladder of survival and they have been doing this since the very first immigrant.

sir1963:

 

Americas problem is it has NEVER been the country it proclaims to be

 

It is NOT the leader in any social metric except

 

Prison population

 

Military spending

 

 

 

After that, for education , health, welfare, law and order, honesty/corruption, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom, happiness, life expectancy, infant mortality, violent crime, social mobility, equality, etc etc etc etc the USA is well down the list.

 

 

 

They tell themselves how great they are, they just refuse to look to see if it is true.

 

They are ignorant about the world and the people in it, heck lots are ignorant about their own country.

 

They bleat about brainwashed North Koreans yet every school child must pledge allegiance EVERY DAY.

The US is far from perfect yet I'd still rather have a dominant US than a dominant China - in a lesser of two evils way.

sir1963: Americas problem is it has NEVER been the country it proclaims to