03-03-2018, 06:58 PM
(03-03-2018, 02:07 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-03-2018, 01:12 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Armed rebellion against the sort of people we have been electing will not work, I don't think, whether the rebellion is against the right-wing people or the left-wing people, so-called, that we have been electing. I don't think stockpiling and arming the citizenry will facilitate such a rebellion. It would need to be well organized, essentially by a state-in-exile or a seceding group of states. Then, the question for the rebels would be whether the new boss turned out to be essentially the same as the old boss.
On another note entirely, you man want to watch PBS's American Creed. David Kennedy and Condoleezza Rice attempt to peg just what is America and American. They seem to be putting emphasis on inclusiveness, service, and working together. In this they are leaning blue, but even more so they are pushing working together to solve a crisis. The theme was S&Hish, of getting together and not being self oriented.
Just one thing leaning towards a cyclical reality, pursuing collective crisis values, not selfish unraveling, but it is hardly strange to see PBS pushing blue values. If I had to push just one thing it would be balance, but the cycle seems more likely.
I remind you again, "red and blue values" did not exist before the 1980s (and not called that until the year 2000), and not since the after-years of the civil war, when they were called blue and gray values. Today the polarization exists ONLY because the Republicans have gone way overboard and their voters completely crazy and brainwashed by their media bubble, financed by greedy barons. Just as crazy as the Dixie hotheads of 1860. Not so long ago the parties were themselves more balanced, and today an Eisenhower Republican would be more like a Sanders Democrat. PBrower has pointed out this fact here numerous times.