If you roll back to the prior page in this Topic you can read Pointedstick (who initiated this Topic) start off a post with this...Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:12 pmHoly crap -- we've got an oracle in our midst!vnatale wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:07 pmThis post by Desert contains the highest percentage (by far) of correct predictions from any of these posts I've been reading from years ago....Desert wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2016 5:48 pmHere are a few:Pointedstick wrote:I'm curious… what specifically do you fear that Trump is going to do to harm the country? Specifics, please.Desert wrote: The thing that does bother me is that the "solution" that the angry horde has chosen will likely cause a lot of harm to this country. It's not hard to break things, to tear things down. Like the wise man Colin Powell said to W before he went into Iraq, "If you break it, you own it." Unfortunately, that's not exactly true, because now W doesn't own it, the American and Iraqi people own it. Similarly, after Trump augers in (sooner or later), it won't be him that has to foot the cost, it will be Americans, including those of us who have done our best to point out the painfully obvious problems with this candidate.
1. Trade wars with China and Mexico, derailing our fragile economy (and the fragile world economy)
2. A policy of torture, perhaps even worse than what we saw under W ("much worse than water boarding")
3. Ban on muslims entering the U.S., which much like gun laws, simply results in only the criminal elements entering. Steps like these erode religious freedom. Freedom only for religions we like isn't religious freedom.
4. Targeting non-combatants in war, deliberately.
5. Mass deportation and societal upheaval, with resultant police state.
6. Attacks on first amendment, constant retaliation against those who would merely offend him.
7. National security degradation as a result of mental instability and resultant poor foreign policy decisions. Craziest hand ever near the nuclear button.
A few more, that are more general in nature:
1. Lowers the national political discussion to a whole new (low) level.
2. Increase of anger and hatred among racial and economic groups within the U.S., due to irresponsible rhetoric and encouragement of anger and violence (see his rallies). A general force for increased sadism in the country.
3. Lowers the U.S. reputation in the world (giving a whole new meaning to the term "ugly American").
Those are a few. There are probably many others. What's worse, I see very little on the plus side to offset the negatives he'd bring.
Vinny
"Re: The political re-alignment of our time
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by Pointedstick » Sun Apr 16, 2017 5:36 pm
Checking in a year later... how did I do!?
The Democratic party is definitely doubling down on cosmopolitanism. But I don't see many of the changes to the Republican party that I predicted. Trump himself has turned out to be much more incompetent and immature than I thought, and has been unable kick out the neocons and Heritage Foundation types. He's delegated his legislative agenda to establishment figure Paul Ryan and moved to a more conventional directionless Wilsonian foreign policy."
Seems like he was self-declaring himself to NOT be an oracle!
Vinny
Vinny