Sweet Jesus...Interesting but frightening..

[busterbrown]

Perhaps some here can tell me why this isn’t gonna happen..

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/heres-how-the-us-empire-will-devolve-into-fascism-and-then-collapse-according-to-science/

[Budee]

1. I doubt it

It's hard to make sweeping changes. FDR did it and LBJ: But then the circumstances were extraordinary. One did so with the Great Depression in progress. The other did things in part with a sympathetic opposition party (Republicans were instrumental in passing the voting rights act over the objection of southern democrats) and with the sympathy of doing things for the memory of JFK.

Ronald Reagan, who won big victories twice could not get the big sweeping changes he wanted. The department of education did not go away. There was no line item veto. And other vestiges of big government he wanted to eliminate stayed.

It will be difficult for Trump to accomplish as much change as FDR or LBJ did. Maybe he can get some change through like Reagan. Some of his policy wants go through and many others do not. That is all I expect he will do.

[yeoman6987]

3. I think it depends on 2018

If the repugs get 60+ seats were fucked. This is a totally different repug party from Reagan.

[a kennedy]

4. and how did you find DU???

welcome.

[Budee]

5. DU

I have known about and lurked on this site since at least the 2000 election. I guess I posted because now I'm a star member

[Skittles]

6. now THAT is some long-time lurking

yes INDEED

[Grey Lemercier]

2. Johan Galtung is an anti-semitic loon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Galtung

........authors criticized Galtung's opinion that while Communist China was "repressive in a certain liberal sense", Mao Zedong was "endlessly liberating when seen from many other perspectives that liberal theory has never understood" because China showed that "the whole theory about what an 'open society' is must be rewritten, probably also the theory of 'democracy'—and it will take a long time before the West will be willing to view China as a master teacher in such subjects."

The authors also criticized Galtung's opposition to Hungarian resistance against the Soviet invasion in 1956 and his description in 1974 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov as "persecuted elite personages".

Statements on Israeli influence on U.S. politics
Israeli newspaper Haaretz accused Galtung in May 2012 of antisemitism for: (1) suggesting the possibility of a link between the 2011 Norway attacks and Israel's intelligence agency Mossad; (2) maintaining that "six Jewish companies" largely control the US media; (3) identifying what he contends are ironic similarities between the banking firm Goldman Sachs and the conspiratorial antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and (4) theorizing that although not justified, antisemitism in post–World War I Germany was a predictable consequence of German Jews holding influential positions.

As a result of such statements, in May 2012 TRANSCEND International, an organisation co-founded by Galtung, released a statement attempting to clarify his opinions. On August 8, 2012, the World Peace Academy in Basel, Switzerland announced it was suspending Galtung from its organization, citing what it posited were his "reckless and offensive statements to questions that are specifically sensitive for Jews."