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In reply to the discussion: Why do I get the dreaded feeling that we've just witnessed the farewell address of the Last American President? [View all]EdmondDantes_
(172 posts)7. For the same reasons people said the same thing about Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden
The parties have found that proclaiming doom and gloom helps raise money, and that has an impact on the people most tied to the party. But also as the public has become more "correctly" politically aligned (there are no longer Republicans more liberal than Democrats and vice versa), there's increased incentive to view anyone from the other party as the enemy and when we see people as enemies, we often start to take everything as a moral offense.
If slavery couldn't end the country, Trump isn't going to do it. We will have elections as usual, Trump will either leave office on January 20th, 2029 or sooner if all that unhealthy living catches up to him.
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Why do I get the dreaded feeling that we've just witnessed the farewell address of the Last American President? [View all]
Mr. Scorpio
Jan 15
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For the same reasons people said the same thing about Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden
EdmondDantes_
Jan 15
#7
Trumps' economy will fail. Voters won't be happy. Trump doesn't have long to live anyway, he doesn't care as long as he
Exp
Jan 15
#15
It was predicted: 1900; or, The last President by Lockwood, Ingersoll, 1841- Publication date 1896
usonian
Thursday
#34
What's in store - grief, poverty, hate, hurt and the destruction of everything good about the country.
lark
Thursday
#38
For some, it started early, the unemployment and destroyed the hope of recovery; after years of escalating costs we have
Backseat Driver
Thursday
#52
Politically we're finished. Regulation by the State, WWII style, is over.
bucolic_frolic
Thursday
#51
It's not. We're in for a shit show, but I am not conceding EVEN IN THOUGHT, that this is the last election. F them.
themaguffin
Thursday
#58
It's the end of an era. Everybody should take a moment and recognize that.
live love laugh
Thursday
#72