What will the next decade bring? Here are ten quasi-predictions* for the next ten years. (And to my own surprise, many of them are actually optimistic!) [Thread.]
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9) Global Inequality Falls Thanks to rapid development in some of the poorest regions, the world as a whole likely became *less* unequal in the 2010s. If big parts of Asia and Africa keep growing as quickly as predicted, global inequality could keep falling in the 2020s.
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10) Liberal Democracy Regains Its Allure The 2010s have shown that liberal democracy needs serious repair. But the 2020s may show that the main ideological competitors to liberal democracy fare even worse—and that those deprived of their liberty eventually fight to win it back.
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Many of these quasi-predictions will turn out to be completely wrong. And of course I will have missed many of the most important developments of the next decade. So help me out: What widely discounted outcomes do you foresee for the next decade?


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people have been making these kinds of claims for a while but i don’t think it’s ever come true. in fact ethnocentrism seems to be on the rise on the right
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Probably not. After Romne’s loss, the Republican establishment wanted to appeal to Hispanics on shared conservative values. Their voters gave them Trump, instead.
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I would actually like a definition of “conservative” here. It seems exploding debt and destroying the planet shouldn’t be “conservative” but they are. How is this? Do I not understand the word “conservative”.
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Yes I think that will definitely be a big part of 2020 conservative movements, culturally entrenched high performing 3rd & 4th generation immigrants fully adopting the sort of low tax, social conservative mindset of current upper middle class whites
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