The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-21-2020, 05:18 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Hmmm...I've seen your third rate Gen Xr's and Millenials at work these days. I mean, they're ok for those who are more familiar with liberal politics related to the third world and more accustomed to barely living in third world banana republics.

I too am disappointed that the Xers and Millennials allowed the export of jobs to the third world.  In hindsight, this contributed significantly to their poverty as compared to those whose youth was spent in the progressive era.  It used to be, during the colonial time, that the country was put first, not the corporations.  The prime manufacturing jobs were kept in the mother countries.  The third world was kept poor by using them a source of raw materials and a market only.  These days, the corporations are first.  The politicians voted to enable the elite rather than the country.  This resulted in the people who came of age in the mother countries during the conservative era not benefiting from the colonial policies.  Thus, relative poverty.

I don’t blame the conservatives entirely.  The Democrats were accepting campaign finance ‘donations’ too.  They too would benefit the elites at the expense of the countries and thus the People.  And yet, in another way it was a good thing too.  The colonial exploitation of the third world had to come to an end.  If the world was to be stabilized, the artificial military and colonial forces that kept the rich countries rich and the poor countries poor had to be minimized.  The structures that kept the gap in place had to be torn down.  Unfortunately, it was done in a way such as it was the elites that pocketed the bulk of the benefit.  The imbalance of wealth actually increased.

If the relative difference between the well off sons of the progressive time as opposed to the sons of the conservative time is to be reversed, it is by lessening the division of wealth, not at the expense of the third world.  Those jobs are gone.  The best we can do is fight the autocratic Neo-capatalist governments that are trying to deny their People the political benefits of the Enlightenment: human rights, contested elections, division of power, etc…

I too find the Xers and Millennials good people.  We can’t all be idealists, struggling for the common good.  The mood had changed.  The emphasis went towards finding a good time and a good job.  After fighting the good fight during the progressive time, it was time for a vacation.  It is just that the vacation should be brought to an end.