I have read a complete timeline of the post election chaos. Gore & his team likely made some mistakes related to recount requests in the early days after Florida's count was announced, but once the supremes got involved, it was out of everyone's hands. The supremes should never have gotten involved and that was Bush's greatest move because Scalia was a raving conservative and was biased as hell. Florida also had ridiculous recount procedures and wasn't remotely prepared for something like that. Neither was Gore for that matter. I suppose one could blame the Democratic party for not understanding the Florida electorate better and anticipating some type of problem there. Maybe they just assumed FL would go blue again like it did in 96. It's clear that both parties know far, far more about voting now than 20 years ago.
I point to China because they are clearly the rising global power. In the past 4 years China has dramatically increased its global economic power and influence and Trump practically rolled out the red carpet for them. He killed TPP, China rolled in a mopped up. Trump (alone) enacted massive tariffs, China found new markets all over the place and has built new partnerships everywhere. Now lawmakers are panicking over Chinese investment in US farmland, acting as if that was something new. It isn't new at all and it's going to be difficult to stop. So unless something major changes, China's global presence will continue to advance and overtake the US as the primary economic engine. And unlike the old Soviet Union, China doesn't really have an internal ticking time bomb that will blow out it's knees. But maybe I misspoke about the future of the US. China may not eat the US but it will become their finger puppet.
I point to China because they are clearly the rising global power. In the past 4 years China has dramatically increased its global economic power and influence and Trump practically rolled out the red carpet for them. He killed TPP, China rolled in a mopped up. Trump (alone) enacted massive tariffs, China found new markets all over the place and has built new partnerships everywhere. Now lawmakers are panicking over Chinese investment in US farmland, acting as if that was something new. It isn't new at all and it's going to be difficult to stop. So unless something major changes, China's global presence will continue to advance and overtake the US as the primary economic engine. And unlike the old Soviet Union, China doesn't really have an internal ticking time bomb that will blow out it's knees. But maybe I misspoke about the future of the US. China may not eat the US but it will become their finger puppet.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
