In 2020, Fate asked, asks, and will ask the Republic: QUO VADIS? Where are you   going?   The 21 st Century, because of Climate Change, Over Population, Religious fanaticism, Social media, and tribalism, promises to be the most savage century in recorded history, out distancing the Bronze Age Collapse, the Dark Ages, the 17 th Century and the 20 th Century in flat out savagery.   There won’t be a peaceful hamlet in any corner of the world;  Shangri-La  will be stormed and sacked; Xanadu will be burned and looted; Avalon will be razed amid slaughter.   How savage will it be? Quakers will be pulled from their homes, in broad daylight, and shot in the middle of the street for advocating peaceful ways.   However-   If President Trump is re-elected; it will send a resounding message to the world, and Fate itself, that the Republic intends to survive the 21 st Century.   It will survive as a democratic, republican Byzantium, scarred, disillusioned, banal perhaps, professionally cynical, unwe