My Dream scenario is Biden dies the day after the democratic convention leaving them stuck with Kamala, and then e Trump narrowly loses and runs 3rd party to be able to pardon himself. Then Cornel West pulls it off for the greens. He might be just about the only person I unambiguously trust to do the right thing with that power. The only problem is I doubt Kamala could make it the 5 months or so without starting a nuclear war.
While I prefer Trump to Biden or Kamala, his ego makes him to easily flattered by neocons who go undermine him at every step. His entire presidency seemed to be more ego stroking, and billionaire tax cuts rather than anything to improve my life.
I remember being in highschool when it became apparent that republicans didn't care whatsoever about facts or evidence, just ideology. Then watching Clinton spew lie after lie after lie in 2016 with her media sock puppets encouraging her I realized at most 5% of the population even cares about the accuracy of politicians. and even less have spent enough time to be able to tell what is and isn't a lie. I have a hard time imagining anything besides terminal decline for this country.
This 5% estimation may be prety accurate. This would roughly be the number of people who are kinda not prepared to totally go with the flow. However, there are some questions regarding the 5% too. Like, are they for real? Or do they just think that they are too good to consume CNN and FOX's product and choose to consume David Pakman and Alex Jones' product instead? Because they are special? How many of these contrarians are prepared to act upon their progressive realisations whatever those might be? We may well be looking at 5% of 5%. But at the same time... Considerably greater numbers of people would choose to do the right thing without any ideological conceptualisation if it connects directly to their lives and they are organised to do so by selfless leadership, especially at a local level, wouldn’t they?
If only it were so simple.. As far as sourcing goes, it takes time and effort to cultivate a diverse array of sources, more time to be able to distinguish between factual information, educated guesses, and just assertions without evidence. Always looking for people who own up to mistakes, and are willing to admit things that are against their own interests.. Most people don't have that much time and just latch on to whatever narrative is dominant in their social circles. And god is it hard to get anyone to shake that narrative. As explained here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
But the problem is that both sides have SO many false beliefs that there is virtually no good way of fixing anything.
I dunno. TDS (TrumpDerangementSyndrome) is still pretty powerful where I am.
I hope you are right and that Trump is still capable of changing course and renounce the "jabs" and embrace Peace. But we have too many geriatrics (like him) in positions of power.
This was not meant as a support of Trump, but a support for the view that Trump will kill the Democrats, and then perhaps, a tiny chance that something decent might emerge to replace them.
My Dream scenario is Biden dies the day after the democratic convention leaving them stuck with Kamala, and then e Trump narrowly loses and runs 3rd party to be able to pardon himself. Then Cornel West pulls it off for the greens. He might be just about the only person I unambiguously trust to do the right thing with that power. The only problem is I doubt Kamala could make it the 5 months or so without starting a nuclear war.
While I prefer Trump to Biden or Kamala, his ego makes him to easily flattered by neocons who go undermine him at every step. His entire presidency seemed to be more ego stroking, and billionaire tax cuts rather than anything to improve my life.
I remember being in highschool when it became apparent that republicans didn't care whatsoever about facts or evidence, just ideology. Then watching Clinton spew lie after lie after lie in 2016 with her media sock puppets encouraging her I realized at most 5% of the population even cares about the accuracy of politicians. and even less have spent enough time to be able to tell what is and isn't a lie. I have a hard time imagining anything besides terminal decline for this country.
Read and listen to michael hudson. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/macro-n-cheese/is-the-us-a-failed-state-q0RmXQIVFGu/ There is also a transcript of this https://globalsouth.co/2023/07/10/michael-hudson-why-the-u-s-economy-cannot-re-industrialize/?fbclid=IwAR3-bLI1Lmep-fQsRk_HRpszQtB1etOq5EHoRXbMfZL8zWTA7gtJS30J62s
Yes, I have been reading just about everything he puts out sine 2016. I actually met him once at a NakedCapitalism.com meetup in NYC
This 5% estimation may be prety accurate. This would roughly be the number of people who are kinda not prepared to totally go with the flow. However, there are some questions regarding the 5% too. Like, are they for real? Or do they just think that they are too good to consume CNN and FOX's product and choose to consume David Pakman and Alex Jones' product instead? Because they are special? How many of these contrarians are prepared to act upon their progressive realisations whatever those might be? We may well be looking at 5% of 5%. But at the same time... Considerably greater numbers of people would choose to do the right thing without any ideological conceptualisation if it connects directly to their lives and they are organised to do so by selfless leadership, especially at a local level, wouldn’t they?
If only it were so simple.. As far as sourcing goes, it takes time and effort to cultivate a diverse array of sources, more time to be able to distinguish between factual information, educated guesses, and just assertions without evidence. Always looking for people who own up to mistakes, and are willing to admit things that are against their own interests.. Most people don't have that much time and just latch on to whatever narrative is dominant in their social circles. And god is it hard to get anyone to shake that narrative. As explained here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
But the problem is that both sides have SO many false beliefs that there is virtually no good way of fixing anything.
I dunno. TDS (TrumpDerangementSyndrome) is still pretty powerful where I am.
I hope you are right and that Trump is still capable of changing course and renounce the "jabs" and embrace Peace. But we have too many geriatrics (like him) in positions of power.
This was not meant as a support of Trump, but a support for the view that Trump will kill the Democrats, and then perhaps, a tiny chance that something decent might emerge to replace them.