American in 2034
21st June 2014
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, opines.
The state ideology–“political correctness,” “the Narrative”–seems to me quite robust. I don’t expect it to change over the next 20 years.
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With ever fewer jobs for the left side of the bell curve, a universal dole–a federally-guaranteed minimum income–will be in force.
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To the degree that party politics is of any importance, we shall be in a period of Democratic Supremacy. The Republican Party will either have contracted to its conservative (that is white, Christian, Southern) core and be nationally irrelevant, like 18th-century British Tories, or it will continue to offer the Narrative fronted by different personalities, as at present.
June 23rd, 2014 at 01:23
Amused to discover that I am not allowed by my work firewall to read John’s musings. Reason? “This Websense Category is filtered: Intolerance”
His or theirs?