2016 Postmortem

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:39 AM Mar 2016

What kind of "revolution" would the election of Donald Trump usher?

Many of Trump's most noxious ideas from banning all Muslims from entering the United States to rounding up and deporting twelve million undocumented workers without due process to ending birth right citizenship would surely be blocked by the courts. However and it is a big however it would create a climate where minorities would feel extraordinarily uncomfortable and those whose aim is to do them harm would feel emboldened. I don't think any of us would want to be a Muslim, a Latino, or a minority in Donald Trump's America.

I suspect Susan Sarandon believes a Trump presidency will maximize the contradictions as some of my friends on the left would say of the capitalist system, and America would finally progress to glorious revolution. In a nation with more guns than people, and so many ethnic and racial scabs to be picked at it doesn't take a sociologist with a PhD from Princeton to predict the chaos that would ensue.

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What kind of "revolution" would the election of Donald Trump usher? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 OP

Sometimes I think, due to sheer ineptitude, My Good Babushka Mar 2016 #1

Most of Trump's fanciful ideas would never see the light of day. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #4

I'm not sure, if Trump was actually elected, My Good Babushka Mar 2016 #8

Here: JaneyVee Mar 2016 #2

I partially disagree... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #7

A revolution that would protect Susan Sarandon's assets n/t Onlooker Mar 2016 #3

Oh brother. More Susan Sarandon spam. beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #5

Who knows? Chaos historically empowers RW 'law-and-order' types. With a racist xenophobe in Trump pampango Mar 2016 #6

Folks will yearn for a strong man. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #9

Chaos, especially for the 99%ers Iliyah Mar 2016 #10

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

1. Sometimes I think, due to sheer ineptitude,

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:44 AM

Mar 2016

and an unqualified desire to be popular and well-liked, Trump would tack left on many issues. It's hard to say.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

4. Most of Trump's fanciful ideas would never see the light of day.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:47 AM

Mar 2016

But he would create a climate where violence and discrimination against minorities would be allowed in fact if not by law; bigotry would have social license.

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

8. I'm not sure, if Trump was actually elected,

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:54 AM

Mar 2016

racist people might feel like they have already accomplished something about immigrants, refugees and minorities, just because they got their candidate. Americans have short attention spans and exhaust themselves quickly with outrage. I can hardly see how it would be any different than it is now. Bigotry, racism and economic discrimination is already pretty bad. Inefficient, useless, and detrimental policies become a blind spot when it's your candidate or party in office. Drone warfare is bad, it makes more terrorists than it destroys, but most democrats just pretend they don't see it. So I don't know what a Trump presidency would seem like to conservatives.

I still think he really doesn't want to be president and this is a terrifying commercial for another one of his products. I think he would quit soon after, if he were elected.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

2. Here:

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:45 AM

Mar 2016

Susan will be at the craft services table in between shoots on location in Europe while Trump is rounding up Mexicans here in America. But dont worry, her building here in NYC has a doorman to protect her from the ravenous mobs of revolution, and her money will protect her from Trumps scotus picks.

The rest of us? Apocalypse.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

7. I partially disagree...

Reply to JaneyVee (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:51 AM

Mar 2016

The courts will block Trump's mass deportation plans. Even undocumented workers and their families are entitled to due process...What a Trump presidency will create is a climate where those who dislike minorities and aim to do them harm will have social license.

Onlooker

(5,636 posts)

3. A revolution that would protect Susan Sarandon's assets n/t

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:46 AM

Mar 2016

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)

5. Oh brother. More Susan Sarandon spam.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:49 AM

Mar 2016

pampango

(24,692 posts)

6. Who knows? Chaos historically empowers RW 'law-and-order' types. With a racist xenophobe in Trump

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:50 AM

Mar 2016

in the White House, I think that type of reaction would be much, much more likely than some kind of liberal utopia.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

9. Folks will yearn for a strong man.

Reply to pampango (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:56 AM

Mar 2016

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

10. Chaos, especially for the 99%ers

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 10:10 AM

Mar 2016

Economy fails, depression, via Revolution!

Extremely hard on the POC, closed to all except whites and rich, via Revolution!

One party rule - via Revolution!

Slave wages, no more trying to fix the infrastructure unless you are the rich - via Revolution! (right now in California our infrastructures and roads are being repaired because of "we the people".

On and on, but alas, NRA will carry on! More guns, more deaths - via Revolution

Bomb bomb Iran!

This is a horrible dream, must wake up . . . .

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