Peter Leyden: Why Trumps Inauguration is Not the Beginning of an Era but the End

[ginnyinWI]

Trump Begins The End
Trump is a symptom of something much bigger and more fundamental going on in the world. So are the people behind Brexit in Great Britain. They are not driving the change, they are reacting to the change. They are not showing the way forward, they are making desperate attempts to cling to the past, a past that is gone forever.
The world is in the relatively early stages of an almost inevitable transition to what can be best understood as a new 21st-century civilization. Relatively early — meaning roughly one-third of the way through. And almost inevitable — meaning it can be derailed if we make some catastrophic political choices.
There are three fundamentally different characteristics of this civilization: One, it will be run totally on digital technologies, smarter and smarter, more and more interconnected computers. Two, it will be totally global and operate on a planetary scale. And three, it will have to be sustainable, in its energy usage and its impact on the planet.

...I think Trump ultimately is going to do America and the world a service by becoming the vehicle that will finally take down right-wing conservative politics for a generation or two. He is getting the entire Republican conservative establishment to buy into his regime. He is creating an administration that is blatantly all about rule by — and for — billionaires, sold out to the oil and carbon industries, and celebrating an out-of-control corporate capitalism. It will be a caricature of conservative policies. In short order he will completely and irrevocably alienate all the growing political constituencies of the 21st century: the Millennial Generation, people of color, educated professionals, women. He’ll eventually do the same for a significant number of more moderate Republicans. And does anyone out there really think Trump will do anything for the white working class that got him elected? Watch as repealing Obamacare blows up in his face.

https://shift.newco.co/https-medium-com-peteleyden-why-trumps-inauguration-is-not-the-beginning-of-an-era-but-the-end-72a86833f0a3#.6l37l6839

[drm604]

1. I hope he's right.

[kimbutgar]

2. This is a great article that gives me hope

It is too easy now to feel depressed and hopeless.

This last week has been nightmarish. Everyday I wake up feeling anxious and scared what the crazy man will be proposing, he essentially wants to destroy the things that make America a place everyone dreams of going to. His dream makes us a nightmarish hellhole of ignorant bigots and non white people cowering and living I fear. No thank you.

[ginnyinWI]

3. my feelings exactly.

And this article does give me hope. It will be bad for a while, but it will lead to an era of great progress. Every move DT makes can be seen as another nail in the coffin of the GOP, so we can take comfort in that.

Hoover's policies led to the Great Depression, but then the era of FDR. I hope we don't have another great depression. Maybe in today's world, things will be sped up--a faster fall of the great DT, and the dawning of a period of great progress.

I mean, this backlash against the Muslim ban has been swift and sure! And not enough Repubs in Congress have denounced it, at least not yet, to avoid taking on the stench of it. They are too spineless and they will get what they deserve.