Post midterm elections scenarios/predictions

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The AFL-CIO’s foreign affairs department collaborated with the CIA and the State Department to set up anti-socialist, pro-American unions around the world and prop up pro-US dictatorships in Latin America, Asia and elsewhere. Meany was a virulent supporter of the Vietnam War.

The AFL-CIO’s, hmm?

AFL-CIO according to the World Socialist Website:



So pro-socialist.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/09/pers-s18.html

60 year olds aren't the problem. Young cosplay Alt-Reich cry babies who march through towns with loser flags while carrying tiki torches, hitting people with cars, and causing a spike in hates crimes - are.

Make no mistake, the second Trump gets out there is going to be a lot of violence the likes of which will make Charlottesville look like child's play (this isn't because of the normal right-wing base or religious base, rather KKK/Neo-Nazis/Far Right). This is because they saw the opportunity of their big white supremacist takeover coming to light - to only have it be grabbed away by what they believe is the deep state (Ruby Ridge, Waco, ring a bell? These groups being in paranoid militias afraid of deep states isn't new - Oklahoma City Bombing, etc) - it is gonna be rough.

However, I have honest to God faith that the FBI is already aware of this and is already taking all the necessary precautions. After all, the far right is responsible for the most terrorist attacks statistically within the United States - these groups are showing the same paranoia patterns which have led to disasters in the past (beliefs in "deep states"), their growing violence is already noticeable in FBI hate crime statistics, and some extremists view Trump as a beckoning for the "race war" they longed for. All of that isn't going to lead to kumbaiya. As said though, I have faith in the FBI.

I see the Dems as having the same problem as before.

Trump is a populist entertainer with Socialist economics, and front-runner Dems are mostly boring, career politicians with conservative economics.

The alt left for lack of a better term has many more people in the amoung the under 35’s young and healthy and no job and family to protect then the alt right. The biggest potential threat from the right is how does the military personal react. Enforce the order to crack down on people like them or not. You might get a few splashy terrorist attacks but will it be anything sustained. Will a bunch of disaffected unemployed Trumpian workers start siezeing polling place demanding a recount?

Also, you're coming across a juvenile who wants to win a semantic argument, and not discuss the substance of what I said.

We call for worker and community ownership and control of corporations within the framework of a decentralized and democratically determined economic plan.

We call for a minimum wage of $15 per hour, indexed to the cost of living.

We call for a full employment policy. We support the provision of a livable guaranteed annual income.

We call for all financial and insurance institutions to be socially owned and operated by a democratically-controlled national banking authority, which should include credit unions, mutual insurance cooperatives, and cooperative state banks. In the meantime, we call for reregulation of the banking and insurance industries.

We call for a steeply graduated income tax and a steeply graduated estate tax, and a maximum income of no more than ten times the minimum. We oppose regressive taxes such as payroll tax, sales tax [Democrat Ben Jealous just came out as in support of rolling back sales tax], and property taxes.

We call for the restoration of the capital gains tax and luxury tax on a progressive, graduated scale.

We call for compensation to communities-- and compensation, re-training, and other support service for workers-- affected by plant and military base closings as stop-gap measures until we reach our goal of creating a socialist society totally separate from the global capitalist economy.

We call for a National Pension Authority to hold the assets of private pension funds, and a levy against corporate assets for any pension fund deficits.

We call for increased and expanded welfare assistance and increased and expanded unemployment compensation at 100% of a worker's previous income or the minimum wage, whichever is higher, for the full period of unemployment or re-training, whichever is longer.

We support tax benefits for renters equal to those for homeowners. "(Rent Relief Act)"

We call for the elimination of subsidies and tax breaks that benefit corporations and all other forms of corporate welfare.

We oppose the court-created precedent of “corporate personhood” that illegitimately gives corporations rights that were intended for human beings.

We call for a 100-percent capital flight tax on runaway industry.

We support a program of massive federal investment in both urban and rural areas for infrastructure reconstruction and economic development.

We demand the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Dominican Republic--Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA--DR), and we oppose the creation of a widened Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and Trans-Atlantic Trade Partnership.”

We demand cancellation of Third World debt.

(to be fair Trump is doing the re-training part of the call for compensation to communities)

It may be hard to recall now, but there was a time when most Americans were decidedly more blasé about bombing attacks. This was during the 1970s, when protest bombings in America were commonplace, especially in hard-hit cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Nearly a dozen radical underground groups, dimly remembered outfits such as the Weather Underground, the New World Liberation Front and the Symbionese Liberation Army, set off hundreds of bombs during that tumultuous decade—so many, in fact, that many people all but accepted them as a part of daily life. As one woman sniffed to a New York Post reporter after an attack by a Puerto Rican independence group in 1977: “Oh, another bombing? Who is it this time?’”

The underground groups of the 1970s were a kind of grungy, bell-bottomed coda to the protests of the 1960s; their members were mostly onetime student leftists who refused to give up the utopian dreams of 1968. While little remembered today, there was a time during the early 1970s when the U.S. government—the Nixon Administration—considered these groups a genuine threat to national security. Alarmed by a series of Weatherman attacks, Nixon told J. Edgar Hoover during a June 1970 Oval Office meeting that “revolutionary terror” represented the single greatest threat to American society. Hoover promised to do what he could, which wasn’t much.

As paranoid as Nixon could be, it was hard to argue with his line of thinking: Bombing attacks were growing by the day. They had begun as crude, simple things, mostly Molotov cocktails college radicals hurled toward ROTC buildings during the late 1960s. The first actual bombing campaign, the work of a group of New York City radicals led by a militant named Sam Melville, featured attacks on a dozen buildings around Manhattan between August and November 1969, when Melville and most of his pals were arrested.

Weather’s attacks began three months later, and by 1971 protest bombings had spread across the country. In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day.Because they were typically detonated late at night, few caused serious injury, leading to a kind of grudging public acceptance. The deadliest underground attack of the decade, in fact, killed all of four people, in the January 1975 bombing of a Wall Street restaurant. News accounts rarely carried any expression or indication of public outrage.

Consider what happened when another Puerto Rican group detonated a small bomb in a Bronx cinema while a rapt crowd watched a movie called The Liberation of L.B. Jones. When police ordered everyone to leave, an NYPD spokesman complained, the audience angry refused, demanding to see the rest of the movie. When police insisted, “They about tore the place apart.”

The epidemic of bombings eased as the decade wore on, though this wasn’t readily apparent in San Francisco, where explosions remained so prevalent that, after an especially nasty series of attacks in 1976, an FBI spokesman termed the city “the Belfast of North America.’” And the violence actually grew more deadly as the number of underground groups dwindled and grew more desperate; the deadliest year for underground violence was 1981, when eleven people were killed in bombings and bank robberies gone bad.

Most of those bombings were from the left although you did have abortion clinic bombings and assasinations of doctors preforming them.

Do you have statistics? Also, it's telling that you had to go back 39+ years. Not to make anyone sound old, but - that's old.

Do you have statistics?

Also, it's telling that you had to go back 39+ years. Not to make anyone sound old, but - that's old.

You could read the book the article was promoting. The groups mentioned were of the “left”. The book is about mainly the left because that is what was happening. Well I am old(LOL). History can if not exactly repeat itself come back in a similar way. This thread is a prediction thread there are no statistics for the future.