Alan Archibald I think you drastically underestimate the crazed power of American "conservatives." It calls to mind whack-jobs "on bath salts" chewing people's faces off.
If "conservatives" win next year, future prospects for the survival of "the last, best hope of earth" take a dive.
However, secession of "the blue states" linked by a pre-arranged Canadian "federation" (and/or "pot-sweeteners" to secure a blue-state "corridor" through North Dakota, Montana and the Idaho panhandle) looks like a very strong polity, a powerhouse that would leave "Jesus Land" with far fewer advantages than it now enjoys fully integrated into lower 48. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../reprise-red-state...
A confession...
I have never understood Lincoln's passion to keep the United States together. It always seemed to me that if the Yanks let the Rebs secede, it would not have taken but fifty years of "stewing in their own backward juice" before confederate states -- tails between their legs -- started begging for re-admission to the Union.
Anyhow, if the economy stays strong, Trump can win next year.
It'll be nip and tuck, but he'll have a shot.
On the other hand, if Trump loses next November, people on both sides of the aisle -- including Trump himself -- are starting to suggest that The Cultural Terrorist will not concede. In Trump's words he's "owed" a two-year do-over due to the Mueller probe and "Resistance" opposition preventing him from launching America's economy into the stratosphere.
I don't grant much credence to any of this speculation, but if Trump loses, I see him embarking a perpetual road trip to bask in the adulation of neverending rallies, all the while stoking the nation's smoldering civil war - a recrudescencse of the last one.
Reprise: The Civil War - White Xtians Killing One Another On A Scale ISIS Can Only Dream Of
On the other side of the Atlantic, I admit that Poland, Hungary and Italy are problematic.
But Germany, France and all the other EU countries seem considerably more solid than the United States, with the somber menace of Brexit informing the rest of Europe that voting to leave the European Union was as stupid as Americans voting for Trump to "shake things up." (I should mention that, in fact, Americans did NOT vote for Trump. Rather, the Electoral College -- with a boost from Putin's meddlers -- voted for His Despicability. In fact, Hillary got 4.56% more popular votes than pussy-grabber. It is an easy number to remember: 4, 5, 6. Here's what Trump had to say about The Electoral College in 2012. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../5-years-ago-trump...)
I have predicted from the beginning that Great Britain will not consummate Brexit. Already a number of linchpin London bankers have relocated to Paris, and I suspect the émigré tide has not turned definitively only because British bankers can't conceive that their fellows are stupid enough to go through with Brexit.
But anything can happen and if Brexit does take place, there could be trouble across Europe.
By the same token, if Brexit does come to fruition, that rupture will be catastrophic for Britain and -- since "it's an evil wind that blows no one good" -- I believe the beneficiary will be mainland Europe.
Plus, a very large percentage of gringos are ignorant boors whose dream of "high civilization" is open-carrying in church.
I never tire of reminding my fellow citizens that Andy Borowitz is a national treasure.
And I’m still waiting for someone to send me the name of a truly funny conservative comedian. (P.J. O’Rourke is a red herring.)
Not only do I think truly funny conservative comedians are nonexistent, I hypothesize that the lack of a sense of humor — at least a political sense of humor — is a core component of conservatism’s quandary.
Unable to laugh, conservatives can only stew in their juice until their pissyness and pissed off-ness find expression in spite, malice and vindictiveness.
Oh! Their ill will also manifests in the core accusation that everyone left-of-center is a baby killer.
(Over the next few days I will demonstrate that pro-lifers are inordinately responsible for high abortion rates worldwide whereas those societies with safe, legal abortion, readily accessible contraception and widely diffused sex education exhibit precipitously lower rates of abortion.)
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