[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Parse the words carefully, amigo, because they mean things.
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Maybe you should understand your own words first, amigo.
Demagoguery: a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.
Gee, that sounds a lot more like the previous administration than the current one.
[quote=Rt.66]Hatfield, I don’t know if I cherry picked or left anything out. Afterall, I included the link right at the top and encouraged people to “go take a look at http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/20…” before including my snipet of the list. Good job finding those elusive zingers on the list.
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Well, I guess I was trying to amplify on a point made earlier – the list does contain a lot of salient & likely outcomes of the current fiasco. But the bullet list is made a lot less compelling with the inclusion of some batshit-crazy notions like “In the future the consequences of unpayable debt could include indentured servitude, debtor’s prison or being drummed into the military” and “Modern healthcare will be largely unavailable and informal care will generally be very basic.” I was half-expecting David Byrne’s “In the future, women will have breasts all over” to make an appearance.
I mean, if the author really believes we are headed inevitably towards the Mad Max scenario, you’d think he’d start with that premise, not bury it in a bullet list which otherwise contains salient predictions. And the list itself is made considerably less compelling as a whole. It’s kind of like the metaphorical crazy guy on the street corner mentioned earlier – if he keeps saying things, some of them are bound to be true. 🙂
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