I hope this isn’t one of those guys who predicted that Brazil would be the next big thing back in the 70’s.
When I went to high school in the early 70's, the big meme was that Africa was going to be the next big thing. PBS was pushing the concept for everything it was worth. They thought that most of the post-colonial African countries would all elect their local equivalent of Adlai Stevenson and proudly take their place in the "world community."
Look how that worked out.
But still, I hope Citibank's senior management and big shareholders aren't upset by this. They, along with all the other members of the elites, have been telling us for years that America is going to have to get used to a new world order in which it isn't sitting at the head of the table any more. If they're unhappy about this outcome becoming reality, it seems a bit illogical to me.
But hey, we're talking about liberals here. What am I talking about.
The thing about predictions is that they never come to be. There is always some fly in the ointment, some monkey in the wrench that screws everything up. I have a copy of “The book of Predictions” by the guys that wrote the “Peoples Almanac”. It was written in the seventies. Lots of predictions about aliens, underwater cities, gas at $20.00 per gallon, etc, etc. No one mentioned that a Hollywood Actor would become president, the emergence of AIDS, the wave of Islamic Terrorism, the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book had ‘psychics’ of course, but it also had ‘forecasters’. There is too much randomness in history to predict the future. Tomorrow, someone could invent a power source that uses water for fuel, and the course of human history would veer off in a whole different direction.