Got 2016 Right (Almost)

It's official. I can call my self an economostrologer. I did get the global situation right in most parts even though I did goof up about Trump not making it as President or Britain not opting for a Brexit. Then there were other like me, who thought the same, and are still hoping that Trump will not get sworn in (or will get impeached in less than a 100 days); and Brexit will be disallowed by the Parliament.

Okay, I did not predict much about my own home Country, but what I did, came true. (Read previous blogs  Sell! Sell! Bye! Bye!  and  Go on a long early vacation.) 

I did take a long vacation this year, and in my complacency fail to predict that Mr. Modi would take the reins of the BJP chariot himself for a quick and dirty turnaround. India's surgical strike on terror camps across the border woke up the "Indianism" in the Indian, who had given up on his Nation's ability to back sound bytes with action. The Indianism gave way to a higher order of idealism with Modi's war on the demon called "King Cash".  Demonetization, a 3 pronged attack to kill terror funding, tax evasion, and counterfeiting was greeted with 3 cheers by the people, despite the hardship it threw them in. Both his wars have yielded mixed results. Terror hasn't stopped, nor has terror funding, nor evasion, not counterfeiting. It has become a bit more difficult though for those engaged in such acts. But the big concern is that he has once again started peeving off his supporters.

Anyway, today is not a day for all this talk. It's a day when one should be glad that not many days are left in this year which did turn out to be a hell of a SNAFU one. Thankfully, all the shit that had to hit the ceiling is already up there giving all of us a lesser need to worry about predictions and or fake news.

How does it look in 2017? Not very good as of now, but all the shit around in this world is obscuring my foresight. Hopefully another short holiday will cure it. But hard as I may try to think objectively, I do feel that we better get used to living in this world that's transformed to hell. It's the Devil's own world sadly, whichever way we look, everyone is breaking bad. Does that mean I have given up hope? No way, we are yet some time away from a total FUBR situation. And, on that shred of optimism....

Merry Christmas Real Readers and Bots. (If mankind is thinking of marrying them by 2050, no harm treating them as own - don't you think?)









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Bill Blum Lawyer, retired judge, novelist, columnist @truthdig and lecturer at USC Annenberg School of Communications. Progressive views on law and politics.

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