Krystal Ball: world is on a knife’s edge…

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January 2, 2020 at 7:49 pm #110043

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Plus Game of Thrones:

January 4, 2020 at 7:39 am #110069
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I am really beginning to believe that Trump is going to win reelection. The left itself is very divided. I have been in arguements with Clinton zealots that made me feel I was arguing against Trumpers. There is very little difference in their devotion less to.policy and more to a figure.

There is a bit of religious fervor tied to our politics. Facts are less important than emotion.

This country is probably on the track to authoritarianism and also an oligarchy. I do not know that the train will switch track at this point. I never thought I would see it in my lifetime but we will begin to resemble Russian politics more in the future. More corruption. The internet and social media is such a perfect instrument to control us that I have to wonder if that wasn’t
the reason it was invented.
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick
January 4, 2020 at 11:04 am #110072

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Good video, but I think she downplays the executive orders and GOP-passed legislation to radically gut environmental protections. That, to me, will be Trump’s most toxic legacy — that he sped up the timetable for Climate Doom. His administration has literally increased the likely death toll by millions, at least.

Trump and the GOP have rolled back dozens and dozens of protections, and even before Trump, we had far too few.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/08/trump-environment-rules-roll-back-dangerous-attacks-climate-change

As for who wins the race. If Trump does win again, he’ll get four more years to ruin the environment, add hundreds more hard-right, corporatist judges, and project mass cruelty onto the backs of the poor, especially migrants. It will also tell us something about the schizophrenic nature of the American electorate.

Case in point: poll after poll says than a majority of Americans wants Trump impeached and removed from office. I would have said, prior to Trump, that any president with that kind of head-wind couldn’t possibly win reelection. Just. Not. Possible. But we live in the craziest of times, perhaps fit only for a chant like this:
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