This from a post to the Sam Harris subreddit from user AnomicAge
Are we really headed for such doom and gloom? I’m keeping this post for a review a few years hence.
Where do you see America in 4 years?
Perhaps I’m suffering from trump derangement syndrome… but the catch 22 is that one would have to be suffering from some level of derangement to support agent orange in 2025
- In 2016 it was a different story, he was a dark horse in the race – now we all know the staggering extent of his incompetence and his criminality and corruption, and continuing to endorse him is frankly morally unpardonable.
- With that said, I cannot envisage anything other than turmoil, civil unrest and economic collapse in Americas near future.
- They can lie to people’s faces, they can scapegoat, they can propagandise, they can throw red herrings, they can run every trick in the demagogues playbook but it will not save the country from collapse.
- Removing a large number of undocumented but tax paying workers will cripple certain industries and cause prices of essentials to soar out of reach for many folks.
- Life saving medications and medical treatments will also become unaffordable for many.
- Diseases and epidemics will run rampant placing further strain on the health system
- Their newfound isolationism and severing longstanding trade relations with Canada and other historical allies will have untold ripple effects
- American consumers will foot the bill for the tariffs
- Hollowed out government departments will be unable to meet demand and perform their duties effectively
- The clown cabinet will continue to make egregious mishaps such as we’ve seen with the signal scandal and haphazard decisions with catastrophic consequences
- Musk, Thiel and the oligarchs will continue to puppeteer and usher in their brave new world aka dark enlightenment capitalising on the economic collapse as an opportunity to expand their tendrils into every industry and every facet of life. Project 2025 will keep unraveling
- America will no longer be considered a safe global tourism destination, nor a safe destination for international students or scientists or researchers or any who don’t have right skin colour and creed.
- Mass detainments and deportations without due process – sent to brutal foreign prisons or domestic internment camps.
- Many us citizens will relocate abroad – the US will become more insular and severe in its ideology
- Trump administration will blatantly ignore the courts thus invalidating their existence, and prove that the constitution is meaningless when nobody is willing or eventually able to uphold it.
- There will be no democratic election in 2028. Trump Jr will take his father’s mantle when he finally expires as a twisted dynasty, or whoever Musk and co wish to see take the Oval Office.
- Congress will remain spineless and acquiescent. The military will fail to uphold the oath they swore to the constitution. Some will try to invoke the second amendment for its intended purpose and pay with their lives.
- The party of small government and free speech will suppress all opposition and nonpartisan media, books banned, curtailed personal freedoms and erased privacies that were enshrined in the constitution and bill of rights as well as the declaration of human rights
- Widespread animosity and breakdown of relations among families and friends
- Destitution and starvation
- Welfare denied to the disabled, the physically and mentally ill, veterans, pensioners
- Street level crime or desperation skyrockets – prisons overrun – deportations to labour camps and foreign prisons
- National parks not properly maintained and protected as a simulacrum of the planet at large
- Natural disasters will occur with greater frequency and their consequences more devastating as states squabble for resources
- Surge in terrorist attacks both domestic and foreign
- Extended periods of martial law declared granting further untrammelled power to the administration
- US doesn’t annex Canada or Greenland or Gaza but leaves NATO and allows Russia to do as it pleases
- The already abysmal education system will become even more of an indoctrination system raising a generation of mindless myrmidons – tertiary education unaffordable for most. Anti intellectualism reigns supreme
- Womens bodily autonomy removed across the country
- Contraceptives banned
- Widespread disempowerment of women from prominent positions including eventually trumps administration
- The Satanic temple and co humanitarian groups labelled terrorist organisations
- LGBT+ community designated as mentally ill or criminalised and barred from owning firearms or voting among other forms of disenfranchisement (despite the president being a convicted felon and half the cabinet having scandals and crimes against them)
- Americas soft power and influence throughout the world will cease to be – China expands in place
- Liberals and foreign forces will continue to be scapegoated for the ills of the administration
- Some of the chickens who voted for colonel sanders might have a change of heart at the 11th hour as they’re dragged into the slaughterhouse – many won’t.
- Dissenting voices such as Sam Harris and celebrities will be prosecuted or worse. Eventually few will have the courage to publicly criticise the administration
- Atheism will be driven underground again despite the sickening antichristian debauchery of those in power
- Secret service mutates into something closer resembling Gestapo
- Additional assassination attempts
- Reddit will be whitewashed and this post will be removed.
- I hope I’m wrong but this is the path America is already taking