Message from @GodOfMercy (Jack)
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Like, literally would be impossible because it doesn't get worse.
If they manage it, it will be a very fun year.
IDK, I'm more focused on the midterms. People badly underestimate how much things like the house and governorships matter.
How the midterms play out will have direct effects on 2020.
Like, Mueller would have a completely free hand and go wild if the Dems take the house.
I don't know much about that, being Canadian. What I do know, is that Trump is the average american president, I still don't get how he's so different to his predecessors
He irritates all the wrong people and doesn't know how to handle his mouth, mostly.
All in all, he doesn't really do that much.
And his positions are fairly centrist, all things considered.
Exactly, he is the model American.
-_- cuz he can't handle his mouth?
about what everybody else expects, to be honest with you. I don't know many people that really care, when americans act like that. It's pretty much how america started, ask someone on the street if they find vandalism wrong, then compare it to the boston tea party. People who run their mouth have a place in this world. And the constitution is built to preserve them.
Personally, I'd like to see a couple more long rifles in that case...
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@pratel nah dude, as an outsider looking in and from what I know of America if the democrats continue leaning into socialism there is 0 chance of the Democrats winning.
ESPECIALLY if the Republicans capitalise on this exact thing and the illiberal nature of socialism/communism.
I'd be inclined to believe you, but we live in unusual times. I've also seen weirder things. Romney in 2012 polled better on basically every issue but still lost hard.
However if this was happening in my country (Australia) socialism would win over liberty because we have no ingrained freedom in my country
and it's slowly being eroded
Trump has incumbency advantage, but that's not a guarantee. Particularly if Mueller succeeds in finding something.
That's actually a scary thing for me. The Schools quit teaching freedom as an ideal about 20 years ago.
It's actually a big part of why I think we're seeing the rise of social justice *now*. We've got a whole generation and a new one that doesn't really prize freedom anymore.
although I don't think there has been a single term presidency for a few decades
freedom is a dead ideology
The last single term was George HW Bush in 1988-1992.
and is why UKIP is rising in the UK
There you go
UKIPs rise in the United Kingdom is one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen in politics
The US has been remade before.
This is true
There is a discussion of secession from the crown happening in Australia right now
It would not be unbelievable that some kind of socialist groundswell could atleast turn it into somethign resembling a commonwealth country.
and that's one of the most frightening things for me to imagine at a time like this
Does the crown really matter that much?
not really
I got the impression that Australia was independent in all but name.
not at all
we still have a crown appointed Governor General
and that (i believe) holds favour in high courts
laws stopped being influenced by the crown a couple of decades ago
I'm just wondering what would change to where it's so scary.