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Originally Posted by Mathgod
The US economy is a house of cards. Consumer debt, corporate debt, and government debt are all at ALL TIME highs. Environmental protections are being gutted. Trump's policies only exacerbate these problems. When the bubble bursts, it will be an ugly, ugly situation.
The way I see it, the US population can either choose a few more years of a sugar-high economy with a ticking time bomb attached to it, or they can choose to defuse the bomb by electing a democratic President and congress.
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Every thing you say is true. It’s an impossible message to win a majority of votes on. Democracy’s major flaw is being able to provide for any kind of long term strategy. Populist movements from both sides and social media has created this hyper democracy that makes it even a bigger problem. Trump undermining the institutions that were designed to be apolitical makes it even worse.
It’s like we are getting to find out if a bunch of opinionated and reactionary posters on a message board can run a hockey team better than coaches and gms qualified to do the job.