445

Scrolling back through the years, I found the post starting to talk about the 2016 election – 445 days before it occurred. How about that – this is not a new phenomenon for me. But on day 445, I predicted that Hillary Clinton should not be given the Democrat nod, because she couldn’t win the general election, if pitted against establishment Republican candidates like Jeb Bush. There were several reasons why. First, after two Democrat terms, voters would be itchy for a change. Second: she was likely the most hated woman in America. Nonetheless, I thought maybe she could pull it off when competing with a demagogue like DtheT. Clearly that was wrong-headed thinking.

So this time, what are the Dems thinking of doing? Nominating Elizabeth Warren. Do we not learn, people? Fact: voters do not vote FOR candidates; they vote AGAINST candidates. Elizabeth Warren is possibly not as hated as Hillary, because she has less history. But in the end, I’d argue we will stick with the incumbent, rather than choose someone who the average voter doesn’t know and certainly doesn’t trust. So it goes to “the devil you know is better than the indian maiden you don’t know.”

So if I were to make a prediction now – wait for it – OLD Uncle Joe will continue with the gaffes, which the millennials will use as an excuse to not vote for him and it will be a head to head race between Bernie the Big Head and Loonie Lizzie. DtheT will win in a landslide. You heard it here first. No surprise – right?

I’ve already factored him in to win in my fiction…so things will get worse, per my soothsaying. How much worse? Much..not because of DtheT per se, but because his candidacy, election, presidency and re-election are totems for the condition America finds itself in. And that is why I write – the entire 5 book series will tell the tale of our downward descent into dissolution. ‘Cause that is where we are headed. Dissolution. Say it again: dissolution. No longer these United States, but separate countries, more like the breakup of the Soviet Union but in reverse – going from democracy to something new that, as yet, have no names. But they’ll be geographic, north, south, east, west. Different entities with different names, flags, capitals, anthems and borders. State legislatures will pool together to make parliaments of sorts. So in practice, it’ll be like the European Union. You won’t necessarily see border guards – too many roads in and out of each area. But you might see fencing. And relations with our borders to the north and south? They’ll be the heroes. And who first came up with this idea? Why, Maggie Atwood, of course, in creating Giliad out of a piece of America. Yes, Virginia, the new America will have its own Gilead in the heartland. And who will be the ultimate victims of all this political and economic dissolution? The next generations of children, who will suffer mightily. But this time, it won’t be caused by a bloody civil war. It will end, to quote Eliot, “not with a bang but a whimper.” That is what I’m writing about..dammit.

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