Predicting the future is always difficult but there are certain facts that can be relied upon that enable a sensible person to be sure of minimal realities.

Probably the biggest change is going to be the transition from boomer leaders to Gen X. Boomers...due to our success medically have over stayed in leadership roles but over the next ten years that transition will nearly be complete....for example, the last four presidents have been boomers, but it's highly unlikely that whoever contests 2028 will be who we have now or boomers.

That change comes with a gradual change in ideas and beliefs....certain boomer truths that are held by that generation are held less strongly by Gen X and even less by those after.

The other aspect that can be relied upon is economic. Hardly anyone thinks things are going to improve economically and when you look into it I can see why.

The boomers have proven to be poor custodians compared to the silent generation and they have undo the usual pattern of leaving the next generation in a better position...certainly the hopeful position that they were gifted....The metrics both economic and social are quite a lot worse in most fields.

For those two reasons I can't really see a 'centrist' coalition holding together or the centre doing well as we go forward (the establishment always presents itself as in the centre)...essentially because it wants to keep power and its stuff...it's very happy with how things are going because they are the ones doing well....irrespective of what's going on for the majority.

What I see happening is far more polarisation and far more authoritarian control....by amusingly enough people calling themselves centrists.

For the near future I see Trump winning in America and after violence from antifa types the establishment there trying to move it back to a kind of 90s Clinton type era....which is essentially 85 percent of Trump's politics anyway.

However, that first two years will be rough because of the upheavals in power positions. How successful it'll be remains to be seen.

Europe will turn increasingly right....at the moment it looks like both France and Germany are moving that way....Germany is a fascinating point in question and several books could be written about the mess they have found themselves in.

The UK will move left, because essentially it's been moving that way for a long time. However, personally I think Starmer's crew are even worse than Sunak's twerps and I just see continued decline.

Younger Britons are just going to have to learn a harsh lesson about realities and at least more of them will be more skeptical come the succeeding election in 2029.

If democracy still stands in a form worth the name that is.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Mar 2024 12.48pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

The same left wing crackpots who put their own kids into private schools, the hypocrisy just passes them by without a care

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

20 out of 56 British Prime Ministers were educated at just one school. Eton. Others at a variety of other private schools and just 11 managed to make it through the state system. The influence of family wealth is obvious.

Most, of course, were at school before comprehensive schools existed so it’s unsurprising that none at all have attended one.

I see no reason at all why a well structured and managed comprehensive cannot deliver a perfectly satisfactory education for the brightest, which challenges and stretches them, whilst at the same time takes them out of a cloistered bubble and exposes them to aspects of life they might not otherwise see.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

And I see no reason at all why Crystal Palace won't win the Champions League in two years time.

Following the abolition of Grammar Schools from the late 1960s onwards, there have indeed been hardly any from unprivileged backgrounds becoming Prime Minister. The influence of wealth etc that you complain of has been largely due to the appalling decision to abolish Grammar Schools.

Labour Secretary of State for Education, the privately educated, bi-sexual, Anthony Crossland, told his wife "If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every f*****g grammar school in England. And Wales and Northern Ireland." Bravo Tony, you well off, privately educated, bisexual, left-wing crackpot.

Edited by georgenorman (25 Mar 2024 3.03pm)

You see this claptrap all the time.

Some of us have been reading it for fifty years.

Whatever the failed policy you see this perspective. It's almost soviet in how it presents an alternative reality to realism.

Waffle, which by its very nature ignores what actually happened. It talks as though this situation hadn't already been played out over generations and that the results aren't in....the continual jam tomorrow that can be offered up precisely because the giver never has to make good.

Marketing.

Edited by Stirlingsays (25 Mar 2024 3.37pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)