Ok, for what it's worth.
Was talking with a liberal friend of mine who is as scared as I am of the rhetoric coming from his own side of late. He wasn't a Trump fan, but he's convinced that we've left 50% of the country in the dust with the new information economy and all that came with it. We screwed flyover country hard for a long time, and left them with no future. And naturally, when Trump came along, he promised someone was going to be made to feel their pain. Naturally, it resonated. His fear? That unless the Dems start really meaning the unity talk (and he's not convinced they do either?) and really listening to the forgotten half of the country, we'll face a real domestic crisis. I can't help but agree.
To me, when the coasts tell flyover country "Learn to Code, Bruh!" I am left thinking it's like Marie Antionette telling the Vendee "Let them eat cake."
I find in interesting you say this for two reasons, and note that I'm in full agreement with you on the content:
First, I too had a conversation with a friend from way back who is a lifelong Democrat, and he also agrees that the crazies on the left side of the party are causing insane amounts of trouble. He's lived in both Charlotte and San Francisco, and as he put it, he understands very well that they're completely different and cannot and should not be the same.
He was hoping Biden would be the guy to manage differences given his track record in the Senate and as VP, but it's pretty clear that's not going to hold. He agrees we need to restore confidence in our elections and thinks Pelosi's idea of having the feds take over election security is absolutely insane for multiple reasons (federalism for one, another is the fact that putting the least trusted institution in this country in charge of elections is obviously not the way to restore credibility).
The other is I just finished George Friedman's latest book (on his predictions for the 2020s). The short form is that what we are witnessing is the whole idea of a technocracy run by experts coming to an end because it's very clear it no longer works. This is not unusual in history, as the relationship between the government and the people shifts to adapt to new reality (first from 1787-1865, then 1865-1945), so this is about the time where he expects we'll see more of a "Get the job done but be flexible and take into account how it impacts other areas" mentality, as opposed to the current situation where everything is done in separate pieces with no regard for the whole.
Likewise, there's a shift in socio-economic reality every 50 years or so, and the last one was in 1980 (more or less). And it's always bumpy, so there will be instability but it'll get straightened out.
Basically, Trump was a symptom of the populist bent politics is taking, and while there's talk of a "return to normalcy" the truth is that any attempt to stick with it is going to blow up, and the president overseeing it is going to wind up like Buchanan and Carter in the history books. Note that this was written prior to Biden winning the nomination, but if anyone is a candidate of the prior (failed) status quo, it's him.
Likewise, whoever wins in 2028 is likely to make a mark in the history books, so it'll be interesting to see.
Its not just fly over country the democrats nuked a lot of american cities economy with their covid response. California already has a petition to get rid of newsome. The economy's got fucked hard and lets face facts biden is not well. He can not realistically handle the after math of what is going to happen.
And next year the boomers start retiring enmass and the era of cheap credit ends for generations.
The political relinment is fixed its neo Optimates vrs neo Popularies, Trump was our first Grachi brother. Now we are going to have 8-10 years of cancel culture an overt opression that creates an even stronger angier populist movement that will sweep to power.
that will be our last chance at reform if that fails civil war will become envitable.
I doubt it. As I replied to Curtis LeMay above, what we are seeing really isn't that unusual when you consider American history. I'd really suggest getting Friedman's book and reading it, especially since it pertains to the United States rather than an oligarchic slave society that doesn't actually have *that* much in common with 2020s America.
