Obviously it's impossible to predict it accurately, but we can make some educated guesses about what it will involve. No need to be rigorous, just throw some silly ideas out there.
Obviously it's impossible to predict it accurately, but we can make some educated guesses about what it will involve. No need to be rigorous, just throw some silly ideas out there.
so it just just becomes boomers writ large? Angrier, more violent and authoritarian, but ultimately less effective and losing more power by the minute until death makes them just an inheritance to collect?
I don't really think it's boomers, or will die out with the boomer generation.
But it seems increasingly clear to me that these people do not have any understanding of how to take, hold, or wield power. So futures where they get more power don't seem all that likely. They do seem to know how to win elections, appointments, and positions of authority, but that's not actually the same thing as wielding power.
So in dialectical terms, there's a contradiction - fascists can't wield power, but can take formal positions of power - and the reconciliation I'm predicting is that the formal positions of power lose all their power.
Sorry I was unclear, my meaning was that the state will by and large follow the same trajectory that boomers are now on. In the same way that a boomer will be promoted faster but cannot use email correctly, fascists will attain positions without the associated power.