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Okay. We have all this polarization happening, but what do you think of political evolution?> Do you see where it's headed?

Fill us in.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
Already happening, corporations are drawing in all time profits, while the buying power and hence standard of living for most Americans erodes. This will probably continue for a while until the social backlash gets strong enough to insist on reform. The corporations won't like it, but most of them still need to partake in the US economy. They'll compensate with increasing levels of automation. From there it's anyone's guess what happens. Will we begin taxing automated labor? Will we nationalize industries? Will we just accept an exceedingly shrinking job pool and expanding unemployment? What will the disenfranchised do?

One possibility, an increasing portion of Americans leave the country to work in second and third world nations that still need technical labor. This will lead to a sort of, "Americans are taking our jobs" dynamic. The result will be good for foreign economies, there might even be enclaves of American workers in some places. But an emigration based US would exacerbate economic inequality problems. With the employable poor working in other nations, it leaves the Haves and Have-Nots more pronounced.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
There is none.
It's still 'Have money' v 'No money' only NOW both sides have been found out in terms of their poor economic models.

How do you think Trump got elected ?
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@cherokeepatti Hope you're right i really do ! Doesn't matter if the rest of the world struggles so much, but if America goes through a third term of struggling, that will likely herald a depression, not a recession.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Picklebobble2 I hope there is peace & prosperity for all.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Picklebobble2 I believe we can profit from peace if we focus on the right things, there are so many problems that need to be taken care of in this world and that should keep humanity working for a good long while. If there is peace and access to free energy individuals could start small businesses a whole lot easier...I'm thinking greenhouses to grow food....where I live they would have to be heated in the colder months and have artificial lighting in the winter during the short and cloudy days.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
I think we could be heading for times of unrest. The centre is slowly collapsing across the western world.
Fluffy407 · 41-45, F
A bunch of uneducated fucks talking from personal experience alone, leaving science and statistics to the wind, taking biased and fabricated information as their holy grail. Who knows, really
Cierzo · M
My bet:
Step 1- Authoritarian governments, following the Chinese 'social credit system' model.
Step 2- Little by little, some people get to organise their lives apart from government control, in tribes, in a kind of back to basics.

My doubt is which behaviours will be consider desirable for governments. They will differ in every country.
trackboy · 22-25, M
congress is the biggest joke of all.
swirlie · 31-35, F
Trump himself has been quoted as saying during a post-Election TV interview, "I love the concept of a Dictatorship, but I don't like communism or socialism... A Dictatorship in a capitalistic system where the Dictator holds that position for life, is what I believe the very best political arrangement would be about".
swirlie · 31-35, F
@puck61

Why Trump? He has already confirmed publicly that he is not a Republic, nor a Democrat or nor an Independent. On record, he technically supports no current political party in his absolute truth. His views are therefore not representative of the Republican mandate, but his personal views are representative of his perception of the world which is a perception which functions from a foundational belief in unbridled chaos. In fact, his perceptions of the world are totally dependent upon a country remaining in a state of chaos all of the time for otherwise, those same perceptions would be rendered completely irrelevant.

So then again, why Trump? What aspect of Trump is it that resonates with you?
@swirlie His good ideas. His ideas about the economy and Islamism and immigration. Plus the disaster of the Obama administration.
swirlie · 31-35, F
@puck61

Do you see Trump's Administration as being a growing success-in-progress, or do you perceive it to be a disaster as well?

 
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