Apt, on 09 November 2016 - 07:40 AM, said:
So, I've been staying out of this thread for months because US policts doesn't really interest me that much, but... Is the above hyperbole the common opinion of the Malazan Empire?
You seriously think the economy is going to tank? That abortions are going to be abolished? That the justice system is going to be dismantled, etc? You're all acting like the sky is falling.
Don't you see any similarities between your predictions of the election (Trump has no chance) and your predictions of what's going to happen in the next 4 years? (The world is ending)
Trump is a business man. He's going to run the White House like the Chairman of the Board. He'll have head hunters that will select the best people (He has The Best People), who are most likely to create political profit and who will make him look good. IE competent people who will make sure the country doesn't hit an iceberg.
Personally I think it's fascinating that Trump is almost certainly your next president. Maybe he's going to fail but at least you're going to try something different for 4 years.
1) A businessman is a terrible choice to run a country. country. A country/government is not a "business". Different priorities, diff demands.
Ukraine elected a billionaire (4th richest man) to be Pres. Within a year he was the richest. Do not recommend.
2) The real reason I'm very concern with this is to do with what Nevyn said- he won with
this campaign. You realize that every white supremacist, sexist, and everyyone who is "sick of being PC" and defines himself as "adhering to traditional values" everywhere (but especially in Europe) is now going to feel "vindicated?". If Americans feel it's okay okay to have an openly racist "****y-grabber" as the most powerful man in the world, then it must be okay, everywhere, right?
All those far-right "nutjobs" will now think "it's okay to say what everyone's thinking! It's more than okay- it gets you elec without the hassle of actual politics!" just start saying "what we're all thinking"!
I repeat myself: Brexit, Trump- it's part of a trend. Trump's victory as a populist "outsider" riding the worst of racist, chauvinist rhetoric, is going to promote the trend. HRC's victory, while not amounting to much would've probably restored the status quo, leaving the constructive segment with an opportunity to gain some momentum for an overhaul rather th destruction destruction of the system.
3) if we're gonna talk geopolitics, then yes, absolutely, the swing to the far-right/conservative/"traditionalist" values in the West is to Russia's advantage- b/c they've been effectively developing neo-imperialist rhetoric based on "preserving tradition" against "the decadent West". And no, "talking" (read: "dividing spheres of influence a la Great Powers") is not a step forward. I'm obviously biased (I got 2nd and 3rd cousins in Donbass right now), but "talking" to VVH is as much a step forward as Munich '38 was a "step towards peace for our generation".
(this is without me speculating just how tight Trump's business is with Russian investors. Though given Germany's Schroeder is a major Gazprom stakeholder, that won't surprise me)