Prediction 1 -- Race:
American black/white race relations will get worse, much worse, as race-industry activists, aided by their mainstream-media allies, continue to dig up examples of what they claim is evidence of rampant and worsening white racism.
Using “flash-bomb journalism”, i.e. the full-blast broadcasting of extremely rare, isolated incidents and presenting them as the norm – a la Ferguson, Missouri -- and mixing them with “disparate impact” statistics (too many blacks in prison, failing in school, getting expelled from school, unemployed, etc.) supposedly proving white racism, the Left will continue to do a thorough job of convincing blacks that white racism is the cause of all their problems; that white racism -- and only white racism -- stands between them and happiness. Ultimately, rather than having improved race relations, this false and poisonous gospel will insure that blacks stay chained to the bottom rung of society, that many whites will continue holding negative opinions of blacks, and that this "whites-are-natural-born-racists" truism will be deeply and indelibly embedded into the hearts and minds of black America.
Below is a typical race-card activist’s caricature of America:
NY Times April 2015 -- “Slow terror is masked yet malignant; it stalks black people in denied opportunities that others take for granted. Slow terror seeps into every nook and cranny of black existence: black boys and girls being expelled from school at higher rates than their white peers; being harassed by unjust fines by local municipalities; having billions of dollars of black wealth drained off because of shady financial instruments sold to blacks during the mortgage crisis; and being imprisoned out of proportion to our percentage in the population.”
You can find similar pieces almost every day in the NY Times. See my blog section “Disparate Impact”
Prediction 2 – Battle of the Sexes: American male/female relations will get worse and worse. Feminists will continue to press for women “having it all their way” – in particular:
(1) continuing to forbid men from participating in the decision of whether or not their unborn child will be allowed to live,
(3) consequently bringing law enforcement to bear against all “objectionable” male attention – all the way down to the microscopic level of catcalling, suggestive remarks, off-color jokes, and a stolen kiss. (see link below to a section of my blog labeled “Hot But Not to be Bothered”)
NY Times - May 2016 While some praised Mr. Bernstein for his energy and enthusiasm, others complained about his management style, namely his telling off-color jokes and addressing female employees as “Sweetie” and “Honey,” the people briefed on the matter said.
Lincoln Center executives asked Mr. Bernstein to work with a coach to correct the behavior, which he began to do, the sources said. Members of the entire staff were also given a refresher workshop in sensitivity training.
(4) successfully fostering female bisexuality and lesbianism, which will become more and more problematic for men,
(5) forcing the government to implement quotas in any and all prestigious male-dominated fields, particularly STEM professions.
(6) pressing for the diminution of due-process rights for males accused of sexual harassment or assault, allowing men to be convicted on a “presumed guilty until proven innocent” legal standard.
(7) having alreadyhat the state may take a child to have an abortion without having to notify her parents, feminists will continue to devalue traditional maternal caring for children, to the point where the state will assume all preschool childcare responsibilities (i.e. daycare), in the belief that society is better served by women working outside the home rather than staying home with the kids.
(8) Holding that traditional femininity is an oppressive patriarchal construct, feminists will continue the masculinization of women in all areas save one – looking and behaving “hot”.
“We’re trying to become empowered women without knowing what an empowered woman looks like. For all we know it could look a lot like being a slut.”
Ironically, as these feminist victories accumulate, women will become more and more discontent. (See my blog section “Evolution and the So-called Oppression of American Women”)
Prediction 3 -- Immigration: the “3rd-Worlding” of America will continue as immigrants from dysfunctional countries flock here, believing -- correctly -- that they won’t be deported. The Left, inflated by more and more Hispanic immigrants, will be more and more successful in creating an “open borders” America -- one that will increasingly come to resemble the, quasi-socialist/communist corrupt governments of the immigrants’ crime-ridden countries of origin. As more and more whites advocate curtailing illegal immigration, and deporting -- permanently -- illegals who are criminals, and subsequently imprisoning them if they return, Hispanics will grow more and more hostile to whites.
Prediction 4 -- War: A World War with Islam is inevitable, and will very likely involve nuclear weapons. In order to win that war – which is not a certainty -- the U.S. will have to be willing to kill a great many non-combatants, i.e. civilians, as was the case with Germany and Japan in WWII. And, despite our military superiority, we may not win this war, the reason being that our adversary possesses a cohesiveness and determination we lack, rooted in a profoundly deep belief system. America, increasingly splintering into factions, is also in the process of jettisoning its religious beliefs, and replacing them with a cobbled-together secular sticks & strings morality based on political correctness and “social justice”. The Islamic Big Bad Wolf may simply huff and puff this flimsy structure flat.
Prediction 5 -- Socialism: Progressives’ control of both academia and the mainstream media will eventually allow them to successfully unseat capitalism and replace it with “social justice” (i.e. socialism). In addition to healthcare, more and more of America’s industry will fall under government control, via either ownership or regulation.
Having convinced a majority of the public – particularly minorities and women -- that “income inequality” and free-market capitalism are unfair, the Left will successfully implement wealth redistribution on a scale unprecedented in American history. This sea change will be greatly enabled by increasing numbers of single mothers and Hispanics, all reliable Dem voters.
(FYI, Recently Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked repeatedly by Chris Matthews: “What’s the difference between a socialist and a democrat?” She refused to answer the question.)
Prediction 6 -- Family: Families will become more and more fragmented, with traditional nuclear ones being increasingly disparaged as relics of an outdated, oppressive patriarchal past. Fathers will continue to be devalued, and the same-sex redefinition of marriage will open the door to an endless variation of marriage rights-deserving combinations. A large majority of children will grow up without committed mother/father heterosexual role models. This psychic blind-spot will foster increasingly dysfunctional and abusive male-female relationships. (See my blog section “Bertha Kontrolla Major”
Prediction 7 – Religion: As mentioned in Prediction 4, belief in God will continue to dissipate. No longer guided or inhibited by a “from-above” morality, but instead adhering to a secular “this-is-it-&-then-you-die” one, all the very worst elements of human behavior will gradually be unleashed. Our secular elites will be baffled by and unprepared for this barbaric tide, even though they will have been the launchers of the full moon that pulled it in.
Progressives will increasingly ridicule and express hostility towards those who believe in God, particularly Christians -- going so far as to try and destroy, via lawsuits and boycotts, the lives and livelihoods of those who don't approve of same-sex marriage. In the West, the “religion” of Political Correctness will eventually drive out all other belief systems via armies of heavily indoctrinated youths being flush-flooded into the population by academia. (Roughly 30 years late, Orwell’s 1984 is now arriving.)
(You will note that the religion of Islam, being 3rd-world based, is spared this hostility, even though its views on homosexuality and feminism are diametrically, drastically opposed to the views of the Left.)
Prediction 8 -- Journalism:
The corruption of journalism will continue to increase as more and more journalists -- flush-flooded into the media by our elite, left-leaning J-schools -- openly abandon objectivity and skepticism in favor of Progressive political ends, ends which they believe justify the distortion of whole truth. As mentioned in Prediction 1, flash-bomb news – triggered by extremely rare and isolated incidents which appear to validate leftists’ claims of racism, sexism, etc. -- will increasingly rage through an approving mainstream media. Joseph Pulitzer wrote “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together”. Well, in case you haven’t noticed, we’re falling.
Prediction 9 -- Internet: Like so many things in life that are double-edged, the internet, for all its marvelous blessings, will increasingly bring toxic societal negatives: Theft of all personal and private information; the inability of our government to protect necessary secrets and to protect the rights of intellectual property owners (and the devaluation of such property) and, perhaps worst of all, the web will increasingly foster leftist “electronic mob rule” (LEMR), i.e. the public crucifixion of the politically incorrect. (Witness the recent hysteria-based dentist v. lion uproar.)
NY Times Dec. 2013
Prediction 10 -- Patriotism: Young Americans’ dislike/disapproval of their country will continue to increase as progressives continue to rewrite American history -- a la Howard Zinn -- so as to portray pre-1960’s America as an imperialistic and oppressive-white-male, child-abusing, sexist-racist-homophobic nightmare.
Also feeding this dislike will be a steadily declining economy as socialism pushes out capitalism, and more and more citizens become welfare-dependent.
Prediction 11 – Permanent Victimhood: Via the efforts of identity-politics activists, the millennia-old Christian doctrine of forgiving the sins of one’s adversaries will be thoroughly erased, replaced by the championing of permanent victimhood, all victim “cards” (race cards etc.) having morphed into 21st Century aces-of-spades, able to easily trump forgiveness in favor of retribution. Permanent victimhood will insure that affirmative action's double-standards and quotas forever stay in place.
Prediction 12 -- Sex: The ongoing sexualization of American culture will gradually corrupt traditional Western morality. Sexual behavior among children, in-public female sexual advertising, casual sex, and infidelity are fast becoming the norm. “Sex appeal”, already well on its way to becoming the coin-of-the-realm, will gradually dwarf all other once-desirable human characteristics. Net porn, having become as common and as regularly enjoyed by the public as Life Magazine used to be, will gradually neon-glare out any faint flames of long-term commitment that may still be flickering.
I must add that I believe it is the dress and behavior of our sexually-liberated females that lie at the heart of Islam's hatred of America.
Prediction 13 – the Constitution: The U.S. Constitution, the solid-gold compass of the American ship-of-state, will be “living-constitutioned” to the point where only those parts of it which further leftists’ goals will be adhered to. Thus bowdlerized, it will be incapable of steering the ship through the many storms it will inevitably face. The ship is already badly leaking. (Our president – a true-believer that America is and has always been “bad-for-the-world” -- has from day 1 of his presidency been busily drilling holes in its hull.) See my blog section "Judicial Activism and the Constitution"
Prediction 14 – Diversity: Identity-politics activists will continue to carve up America into factions vying for government hand-outs, beneficial regulations, double-standards, and quotas. As mentioned in Predictions 1 and 2, there will be increasing hostility between blacks and whites, men and women. Identity-politics activists will also continue to successfully encourage immigrants NOT to assimilate.
E pluribus unum will be recast as E pluribus pluribus. (See a poem I wrote about diversity in this blog)
Prediction 15 -- GUVS: Democrats will more and more depend on the GUV vote – “genuinely uninformed voters”. The GUVs consist of three factions: blacks, Hispanics and the so-called “youth vote”. Other than knowing they must vote Democrat, the first two groups have little or no in-depth knowledge or interest in politics; either their ballots must be "harvested", or they must be cattle-prodded/fear-mongered to the polls. The third group – youth – besides having most of the above in common, rely on such clown-ideologues as Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Steven Colbert as their sole sources of "news". (SNL dishes out youth-intended progressive dogma every Saturday night.)
All GUVs are, however, via television and movies, fully informed about political correctness, a religion of sorts, and Commandment #1 of this church is: All groups are created equal: equally gifted, equally intelligent, equally industrious, etc., etc. THEREFORE – the unpleasant fact that some groups do a whole lot better than others demands an explanation, and the church preaches that that explanation is – pure and simple -- discrimination. The GUVs are those citizens most susceptible to left-leaning media propaganda. Thus properly indoctrinated, they are reliable Democrat voters.
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." GB Shaw
To conclude: Regarding these depressing prognostications, let me say that I write them (a) genuinely hoping they are wrong, and (b) that if right, enough citizens will begin to perceive the slippery slope we are now tobogganing down, and start dragging their feet so as to slow down this ever-accelerating slide.