Two political analysts, including Michael Steele, say the disastrous presidential campaign of Donald Trump is good news for the GOP.
NineShift has predicted the GOP will win the White House in 2020. We stick with that prediction.
What the two political analysts say is that by hitting bottom, the GOP has the opportunity to redesign itself to appeal to minorities, women and Gen Y in 2020. Here's one story.
Don't know about minorities. Don't know about women. DO know about Gen Y. The GOP will indeed revise its positions to meet the needs of Gen Y. Here's two positions that the GOP will keep:
1.Support for business
2.Support for family values, although "family" will be redefined to include LGBTQ community.
PLUS the GOP will dump not just Trump but also its last-century positions on education, infrastructure, minimum wage, gay rights, civil rights for blacks, gun control, for a start. Essentially GOP will adopt Sander's agenda.
Wild Card: We predict GOP will win in 2020 based partly, but maybe primarily, on its advocacy for private passenger trains.
Spotting this here just because it's handy--and the emphasis I'd like to make is not the rail material that is the basic subject, but some other comments on jobs in the future:
http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39785
The comments that stand out:
Dave:. . .And thanks to the STEM education promotion, we will be graduating many more scientists and engineers that we have places to fill. Stay home and learn plumbing.
Peter Nicholson:. . .Excellent idea. Have you been able to persuade anyone? I haven't.
Phillip Marshall. . .As an underemployed PhD myself, I agree 100%. There is no shortage of scientists and engineers in the US, but there is a shortage of people with practical mechanical skills -- and an interest in using them.
Posted by: David Lubic | September 12, 2016 at 10:08 PM
I wish I had the confidence in the future you have.
One of the things that's been bugging me is that we've been waiting too long already. We should have been getting serious about oil consumption (which would have meant alternatives to cars) starting in 1973 with the first OPEC embargo. Instead we dithered and even fought the idea of bringing back trains.
It's now at the point where we need them, but we can't wait--and now we have another excuse not to rebuild.
http://m.wamu.org/#/news/16/09/07/metro_continues_steep_ridership_decline_amid_nationwide_trend_of_transit_losses
Posted by: David Lubic | September 08, 2016 at 02:20 PM