Originally posted by Adrift
View Post
The Democrat Party will very likely end up using the tactics used by the Trump and Republicans within this period to move one of their own in, and then lock down areas that at one time saw at least some bi-partisanship. The nation is becoming more polarized, not less so.
Obama didn't ruin healthcare for most people. Most folks didn't even register the change, or if they did it was a slight inconvenience. Like you, I work in the healthcare industry, and it really didn't impact our business or bottom line much (might have helped actually). If Obama hadn't pushed through his healthcare plan, the two sides would have remained deadlocked forever (as we saw last year, it's not like Republicans have a map they want to commit to anyways). At the very least, Obama primed the well, and showed that change isn't really as frightening as everyone was on about. Most of the world accepts human contributed climate change as a reality and real threat. It'll continue to be a vanguard issue for those who want to better the planet for their posterity, and I think Conservatives in America are finally coming around to the fact that something is happening.
The Court is a win today, but I believe that future generations will look back on this time and swing back heavily as a counter-reaction to Trump's administration. Any other Conservative president could have probably gotten away with packing the Court with Conservative judges, but Trump has dumped so much bad will, and I think will go down as one of the most reviled and most immoral presidents that I think future voters will seek petty retribution.
The internet is a FAR cry from a net benefit to Conservatives. Fox is a ratings champion because old conservatives have a hard time figuring out the internet outside of Facebook, and Fox TV and talk radio is something dinosaurs can still relate to. Meanwhile, tech savvy college kids, brainwashed by radical neo-Marxist, Postmodern professors, are echoing far left group-think far and wide on the internet. It's a place they're completely comfortable with.
The conservative voice is very much present - even on YouTube, despite its best efforts.
If history is any indication, I have strong doubts that Millennials will become more conservative as time progresses, or that if they do, that conservatism will still look very left to anyone over 40.
No, I think the days are getting darker, and Trump is part of moving this nation and this world in that direction. I don't think he's the anti-Christ or anything. I don't think he's particularly evil as much as I think he's a scumbag. But I do think that he's going to be a fuse to a powder keg to something worse, just in the opposite direction.
My opinion, is he will work toward the concrete - getting things done. That's the businessman metric. He won't care that the left hates him - just that he did what his customers wanted.
In the meantime, us Christians can simply refocus our energies to those within reach in our local hemispheres, and do what Christians have always done. Display our love for God, and our love for our neighbor.
Comment