Ahh, I don't know CC. The Left goes up and down here in America. Our country DID, after all, elect and re-elect Obama. The Left will rise again, but I hope they do not in 2018 and 2020.
My *guess* is that we do avoid a full-blown civil war. But real problems, and real rioting and other bad stuff is likely to happen when the .gov runs out of money and/or a real repression starts.
"The Empire will strike back."
Obama gets a bad rap. Obama kept both Hilary Clinton and John McCain out of office.
He also started the process of dismantling the machinery of the Democratic Party. If it were not for Obama we would almost certainly have had another far worse Clinton presidency.
HuffPo Editor: With The Democrats In Ruins, You Have To Ask Whether Obama Was Good For The Partyhttps://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/12/30/huffpo-editor-with-the-democrats-in-ruins-you-have-to-ask-whether-obama-was-good-for-the-party-n2265325Even The Huffington Post cannot let the down-ballot gutting of the Democrats go unnoticed. Senior politics editor Sam Stein was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday, where he said that while Obama was re-elected twice proving himself to be an excellent candidate—his party has suffered catastrophic losses during his presidency. In all, the Democrats have lost 1,030 seats at the state and federal level, a wipeout of at least a generation of Democratic talent. Stein added that with such a political butcher’s bill, you have to ask whether this man was good for Democrats (via The Hill):
Leah wrote how Charles Krauthammer called the Democratic losses under Obama “incalculable.”
The state and local elections is where the new talent is found. Democrats are nowhere near that pool (right now). If Democrats are serious about walking out of the wilderness, then re-connect with white working class voters that number in the tens of millions. These people voted Trump, but they can shift back. Yet, the Democrats are now a coastal and urban-based party, where snobby elites will not take too kindly about reaching out to white voters. These areas are bastions for black lives matter, transgender bathroom rights, notions that all police officers are racists, trigger warnings, and safe spaces. These people are not interested in anyone who isn’t from where they live, who are not college educated, and who don’t speak with learned diction. Right now, Democrats don’t seem to be keen on changing their tune; they’ve just picked San Francisco and New York-based liberals (Pelosi and Schumer) to helm the ship in Congress. Democrats can fix this, but I have a feeling they won't anytime soon. We shouldn't be complaining about that.
Governments won't run out of money regardless of the party in power they will just tax more and then start having central banks start buying up all government debt to allow for increased spending to pay for prior promised benefits. Thus we can look forward to increasing stagflation which will persist until we grow smart enough to largely abandon government redistribution via fiat money printing. How much each country will suffer until they learn will vary. Some will need to go down the path of Venezuela. Others including I believe the USA will return to sanity long before that.