Fogdog
Well-Known Member
I see it a bit differently.If there's a silver lining to the tale of Donald it will be that he single handedly destroyed the republican party for a generation, topped it up with racist and loonies, drove out the people with brains and common sense. The GOP has lost complete support in the national security, military and legal communities and will become a regional party at best, Donald is gonna burn it to the ground and use up every bit that he can. He will have to go to prison because the GOP could never recover with him on the lose calming a fixed election.
The fight between right and left will now occur inside the democratic party, lots of conservatives and independents have joined up and the left wing of the party is gonna get overwhelmed in 2020. That's not to say they won't be a powerful force in the party, Bernie may never be president, but he sowed the seeds and you can see it the fresh faces in the congress, the progressives are gonna have a big say in the party moving forward. I think by getting rid of the GOP for a while things will straighten out pretty quickly, I mean just look at California when they turfed the republicans.
Another good thing about the regime of Donald is that he has corralled all the grifters and assholes in America into one place where they will be easy to get, Manifort and Stone are just two examples of many more to come. Over 60 people went to jail over Watergate in the seventies, how many do you figure will end up in jail or squeal deals over Trump? Hint, lot's of people are gonna go to jail, hundreds, and the democrats won't have to lift a finger against them either, they broke the law and the lifers in the DOJ will get them. There are 900 hundred former prosecutors to choose from for the new DOJ who will hammer the shit out of all of these assholes in coming years.
The era of Trump has created a stark political landscape where you can see some of your neighbors and family in a harsh light that shows fine detail and makes well defined shadows.
The Democratic Party has always had a left wing. Nothing in Bernie's policies or rhetoric is new and coming from him, useful. He is an inept Congressman who leeched off the Democratic Party. A parasite. He may even be a traitor. At the very least, his association with brutal dictators should give one pause about where he is coming from. He deserves no accolades.
The great recession accompanied by a generational shift and increased diversity in ethnicity and race is what is driving of the movement left. Bernie has opportunistically said the right things to get their attention but he in no way "sowed the seeds" of this leftward political shift.
Trump's base is what the remains of the silent generation and their conservative baby boomer children. They still hold a lot of power and numbers. They are waning while the a new generation is coming into prominence. The 2020's will be a dynamic era with shifts back and forth until a the new generation finally gains the upper hand both economically and in the voting booth. My main concern is that the right will use their current tools of ignorance, propaganda and voting booth shenanigans to suppress the rule of the majority. They already hold power as a minority. .