Monday, January 10, 2022

I think it's very possible

 

Given everything that is happening politically;  the sharp schism between the Democrat and Republican parties, the dirty tricks played by the Republican GOP to ram right-wing judges onto the Supreme Court, gerrymandering which will cement minority rule in Congress for white minorities in many states, voting "laws" that may allow the overturning of legitimate election results by conservative Secretaries of State or GOP-dominated legislatures, and voting restrictions of all kinds 

and also, the idiocy of Senator Joe Manchin 

then predicting that the U.S. will be under an essentially right-wing populist dictator by 2030 is not a far stretch at all.

Prepare for Right-Wing U.S. Dictatorship Before 2030, Scholar Urges Canada

"In the op-ed, [Thomas] Homer-Dixon detailed his reasons for what he called the "unfolding crisis" in the U.S., writing that there had been multiple "warning signals" and reasons behind a changing political landscape.

Among them, he cited "stagnating middle-class incomes, chronic economic insecurity, and rising inequality," and broadcasters such as the late Rush Limbaugh who he said had "hammered away" at the "moral authority of U.S. political institutions."

He also highlighted "right-wing ideologues" stoking fears of white "replacement," the unwillingness of the wealthy and powerful "to pay the taxes, invest in the public services, or create the avenues for vertical mobility."
I don't want him to be right about this. But he very well could be.


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