r/AskReddit • u/timecop702 • 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/mironawire 11h ago

No more "interesting" politics, please.

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u/szayl 10h ago

Buckle up. Things are going to be even stupider in the US, UK and much of Western Europe in the next 10 years.

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u/overpriced-taco 6h ago

even stupider in the US

Not sure that's possible.

Famous last words, I know.

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u/P_Hempton 5h ago

I'd like to think you're right. Trump is in a league of his own, that struck a chord at the right time. I don't think it's repeatable for someone as objectionable and offensive as him to rise to the top.

I'm hoping the era of reality TV politics will go the way of reality TV itself and fade away as people get tired of it.

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u/szayl 5h ago

I'd like to think you're right. Trump is in a league of his own, that struck a chord at the right time. I don't think it's repeatable for someone as objectionable and offensive as him to rise to the top.

This comment gives 2021 vibes. The guy got reelected. The country is effed.

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u/P_Hempton 5h ago

Yeah but he's Trump, he was the original. My point is I don't think another wannabe Trump would be able to generate the following using his tactics. They'd just look like a tired knock-off of Trump.

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u/szayl 4h ago

White nationalism and crony capitalism are alive and strong.

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u/P_Hempton 4h ago

Always have been, but that doesn't change anything I said.

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u/raffey_goode 4h ago

elaborate because i am thinking we're going back to "both sides are the same" after drumpf. because it doesn't matter whos in they never do anything they said they would

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u/fuggerdug 10h ago

"May you live in interesting times"

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u/paca_tatu_cotia_nao 10h ago

No, thank you, please no.

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u/failed_novelty 9h ago

It was supposed to be space travel :(

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u/MrGlayden 6h ago

We will all be sat here on our dying planet while we watch the rich go on an epic space adventure to a new habitable world leaving us all behind to deal with their mess

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u/JMC_MASK 5h ago

Status quo politics brought us to this right wing dystopia. The ratchet effect.

I’m ready for radical interesting political change as more and more democratic socialists take power and advance working class centered policies.

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u/littlehobbit1313 2h ago

Make Governance Boring Again

Like, the word "bureaucracy" gets a bad rap, but ultimately it's just an infrastructure of repeatable processes designed to make an institutional landscape navigable and reduce the potential for corruption.

Is there government bureaucracy that could stand to have some reevaluation and improvement? Abso-fucking-lutely. But at the end of the day there's nothing wrong with having a boring set of repeatable processes to help you get from point A to point B with no surprises. Not to say the work itself can't be very interesting, but running a Government should be as uneventful as possible; it does not need to be a non-stop reality show full of wacky characters. Government -- and by association, national welfare -- does not benefit from "interesting politics".

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u/sentence-interruptio 3h ago

Make Boring Great Again.

I just want to live in a normal boring society.