Completely random predictions
Doris Kearns Goodwin recently interviewed President Barack Obama for McClatchyDC.
(http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article105126401.html)
He advised that, once he's left office, he will be more outspoken about issues important to him. And will address them in manners not always calculated to advance governmental policies, but that instead reflect his personal sensibilities.
My prediction: Once a civilian, Barack Obama may well be the first former American president to publicly kneel disrespectfully upon hearing our national anthem.
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There is, presently, enthusiasm in some quarters for ignoring national boundaries and legal citizenship standards. American history, culture, and national identity are often derided by naive young people and older sorts of scrambled disposition.
High profile illegal aliens such as journalist Jose Antonio Vargas wear their definitional criminality like badges of great honor. Millions more obscure illegal aliens infiltrate America regularly with neither regard for applicable law nor concern of prosecution.
Meanwhile, some US government officials zealously pursue the erasure of American identity in favor of a globalization in which all are simply nomadic "world citizens."
My prediction: One future day, the trendy 'norm' will be citizenship maintained simultaneously in numerous lands. No one keeping to social trend will define themselves as "American."
Certainly, that would be far too great a change, involving too many people, to occur soon. But it may well develop over several generations.
Doris Kearns Goodwin recently interviewed President Barack Obama for McClatchyDC.
(http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article105126401.html)
He advised that, once he's left office, he will be more outspoken about issues important to him. And will address them in manners not always calculated to advance governmental policies, but that instead reflect his personal sensibilities.
My prediction: Once a civilian, Barack Obama may well be the first former American president to publicly kneel disrespectfully upon hearing our national anthem.
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There is, presently, enthusiasm in some quarters for ignoring national boundaries and legal citizenship standards. American history, culture, and national identity are often derided by naive young people and older sorts of scrambled disposition.
High profile illegal aliens such as journalist Jose Antonio Vargas wear their definitional criminality like badges of great honor. Millions more obscure illegal aliens infiltrate America regularly with neither regard for applicable law nor concern of prosecution.
Meanwhile, some US government officials zealously pursue the erasure of American identity in favor of a globalization in which all are simply nomadic "world citizens."
My prediction: One future day, the trendy 'norm' will be citizenship maintained simultaneously in numerous lands. No one keeping to social trend will define themselves as "American."
Certainly, that would be far too great a change, involving too many people, to occur soon. But it may well develop over several generations.
posted by DC Larson at
October 02, 2016
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