Is the American Revolution Inevitable?

@quackquack said
There is no reason why a businessman can't be president. In fact, understanding economics and efficiency is one of if not the most important quality of leading our nation.

@kazetnagorra said
Unfortunately, Donald Trump lacks a rudimentary understanding of economics.

@dood111 said
Odd....he's a billionaire, how much are you worth?

@kazetnagorra said
Unfortunately, Donald Trump lacks a rudimentary understanding of economics.

@earl-of-trumps said
That's fine, Kev but we are off topic at this point.
This is about the potential for revolution, not so much a "blast donald trump" thread.
At least, that was my intention, anyway.

@kazetnagorra said
My net worth would certainly be higher than Donald Trump's if I had inherited as much money as he did, and I would have done that in an ethically superior way as well, without stiffing contractors, bribing politicians, accepting bribes, becoming beholden to the Russian mob, and so on and so forth.

Regardless of that fact, having money and understanding economics aren't the same thing. It's not like the likes of Krugman are extremely wealthy.

@Earl-of-Trumps

Thank you. That was an interesting article (the one linked at the bottom of the OP). No idea what reason could be given for alerting it.

Maybe when the activists run out of statues to topple they will decide the Constitution is completely invalid, because it was written and signed by some white male slaveholders.

@dood111 said
Ohhh...would it?
What have you done with the net worth you were handed ?
And HOW are you "ethically superior" to Trump or anyone else?
Easy for you to look down on people, isn't it?

@kazetnagorra said
I would have parked it in some diversified index fund and probably would have pursued the same career as I am now - science. That would have left me in a better financial position than Donald Trump.

I am superior in many ways to Donald Trump, though I imagine I would be a much worse second hand car salesman or televangelist.

@dood111 said
Old saying...if you're so smart, why ain't you rich?

@caesar-salad Maybe when the activists run out of statues to topple they will decide the Constitution is completely invalid, because it was written and signed by some white male slaveholders.

Geeeez, caesar, please don't give the Marxist revolutionaries any ideas!

@earl-of-trumps said

Geeeez, caesar, please don't give the Marxist revolutionaries any ideas!

@earl-of-trumps said
It's a good question!

The real problems with left/right factions boils down to this:
The left wants total control and will not stop at democratic
principles to guide the country.

I use as two examples that demonstrate this fever pitch of the left
to maintain absolute control are the lost presidential election of
2016, and the appointment of a conservative j ...[text shortened]...

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/is-america-heading-for-civil-war-of-course-it-is_07072020

@no1marauder said
Right wingers lost the last US Civil War.

Why are you so anxious for another?

@earl-of-trumps said
Who said I was anxious for? I'm anxious about

You think I like the idea of some antifa wingnut hunting me down in the streets?