Californians on Beaches and Trails Called DEFIANT!

[David Horn]

(03-24-2020, 01:28 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: With the Republicans still resisting the change to collective action, and Trump (who allowed the crisis to fester early on) now thinking of just lifting the directives to socially distance and allowing us just to go back to work with the illness still increasing, a lot of turmoil could be in the making from this possible "trigger" and it could be a trigger indeed. How long can our government dither while New York sneezes? Our new Nero/Mussolini and his cohorts will face the whirlwind.

The conflict of red and blue will thereby ramp up in the next week or so. The red want to use the crisis to further support the rich and allow everyone else to get sick and stay poor, while the blue want government to provide a more socialistic stimulus directed at most people and continue the restrictions on social distance as the only way to stop this pandemic. Given this choice, the people may start to turn towards the blues, so that the Republicans are turned out and thus progress can restart. I certainly hope the people make the right choice here for the blues.

It is not prophets standing in the way of solving problems. It is the reds. That could not be more clear. This is not a generational question, it is a political and ideological one.

This is the quintessential battle of freedom and duty.  Personally, I think NY will focus on Cuomo's plan, and Trump's call for "a return to normalcy" will be ignored by most.  That it will be taken to heart by a few will still be a problem, since the hospitals in NY are already above capacity and testing is still inadequate.   This will be a test -- probably one of several.  Will average Joe and Jane American see 'freedom to do as one pleases' as a threat or a right to hold dear?  I suspect that, in the end, there will be a swing toward rationality.  How Trump reacts to that will the underlying issue of election-2020.  I'll predict a Trump loss, but how big is still an open question.  If it's big, then 1T behavior will begin sooner than expected.