PresidentSamTilden
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« on: November 30, 2016, 06:37:20 PM » |
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I read a book called "2052" a couple months back. The book was written in 2012. The author was trying to predict the future, always a perilous task.
One prediction he made was that the US would eventually accept more authoritarian leadership. The idea is that internal problems and international crises would create the political environment for it. Some of these problems include climate change, rising terrorism, rising immigration, a generally less livable planet.
Many will disagree, but it seems to clear to me that this is exactly what is happening. Trump's campaign included a lot of nods to authoritarianism, and I expect it continue under his leadership. Not sure what that means for 2020, but this is a legitimate conversation moving forward.
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