(September 7, 2016 at 8:54 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: Grump will lose the electoral vote by a landslide but you can be sure that this attention-seeker won't go away after the election. He will sue everyone in sight when he loses and desperately try to keep hold of the spotlight during Mrs. Clinton's presidency using Breitfart or whomever will have him.
I wouldn't be surprised if he runs again in 4 years as well.
It would be good if he lost by a landslide, but I don't think that will happen. Ours is a seriously dysfunctional society beset by a wide array of serious challenges that, it is quite likely, we have neither the collective wit nor strength to handle. Unchecked consumerism is untenable, but we can't even imagine an economy not built on it. Resources on a finite planet are finite, but we regard unlimited "growth" as the foundation of all progress. Indeed, we regard growth as the only measure of progress.
We regard war as inevitable, even necessary. Nearly crippled with dept the plan is to spend 83 billion dollars revamping our nuclear arsenal, though no sane person thinks a nuclear war can be "won", perhaps not even survived. There are a hundred different policies, from health care to the environment, from war to "privatizing" prisons and education, that are nothing short of bat-shit crazy. Yet we cling to them like believers cling to religion. Hell, electing Trump wouldn't be half as bat-shit crazy as some of the other things we do as a society.
