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kimbutgar

(21,131 posts)
4. I feel daily that the US is on the verge of collapsing under his presidency
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 08:54 PM
Jan 2017

And I feel so uncertain about our future. This feeling of dread can sometimes be overwhelming. I try to be optimistic but it is so damn hard as we get closer to the 20th.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
17. Look up Johan Galtung
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:40 PM
Jan 2017

He is a Norwegian Mathematician/Sociologist who has studied empires over time and developed predictive models used to predict when an empire will collapse. In 1980 he predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse within 10 years. His prediction was correct as they collapsed in 1989.

In 2009 he wrote a book where he predicted that the USA might suffer a collapse similar to what the USSR experienced by 2025. After Trump's victory, a magazine contacted him to see if he stands by his prediction. He does. I would recommend reading the article at the link below.


http://motherboard.vice.com/read/us-power-will-decline-under-trump-says-futurist-who-predicted-soviet-collapse

bdamomma

(63,837 posts)
5. This is want he wants FEAR
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 08:55 PM
Jan 2017

it is in the Soviets handbook. I hope he is stopped. He is not well mentally.

Thekaspervote

(32,757 posts)
8. I believe there is more to this
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 09:15 PM
Jan 2017

My granddaughter's English nanny was here for a visit over the holiday. She now travels world wide as a costume designer for the BBC. When I asked her what The English and others around the world thought of don the con and what America had done. She had two words horrified and afraid

Jacob Boehme

(789 posts)
11. The complete and utter incompetence...
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 09:29 PM
Jan 2017

... of tRump and his gaggle of sycophants is going to be what lights the fuse of world chaos. I wouldn't trust this group of spooge-monkeys to clean toilets, much less run our country.

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