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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. IF they lose big. We know they're really, really bad losers.
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 01:25 PM
Sep 2016

The big question is, even more than when will they finally go down, is what leadership will they then gather around? A good half of all people everywhere are hard-wired conservative by genetics. Environment can mellow or harden this, or both, but they're not going anywhere and will always be half of we the people.

There are good moderate conservative leaders out there, but they have been refusing to get into politics because the party's moved much too far to the right for them. Collapse could encourage some of them to step forward.

I'm very concerned, though, that people like the Kochs, the manipulators who secretly created the Tea Party movement, will try to provide the next conservative leader, someone very competent and extremist enough to do the job they want and charismatic enough to excite large crowds of enthusiastic followers.

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