The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(04-10-2020, 11:10 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Rachel Maddow’s first guest tonight was an ordinary nurse from Kanas.  He is in New York now, helping out in a hospital there, because if he didn’t go, who would?  His job is among other things to tie on the toe tags and to carry the body to the refrigerated truck.  You see, he is the biggest one on his floor.  He talked a bit about his father that stayed at home.  He used to sit like a lump and watch TV.  Now that the government has asked for him to stay home, he finds all sorts of hobbies and other excuses to get in the car and socialize.  You can guess his son’s opinion of that.

This is not unusual in Rachel’s guests.  Some give reports from the front lines.  There are reasons why the stay at home orders are in place.  Most often, the guests are the head of the emergency departments of various hospitals in hard hit communities, but there is no doubt that she is seeking to get to those heavily engaged and get their opinions.

I had to leave after Rachel’s first guest tonight.  I had to drive to an ATM to give a loan to keep my handyman’s pickup truck operational to deliver groceries and keep me going.  I took up my mask, my gloves, my can of Lysol, and attacked the poor helpless ATM, debit card in hand.  The well armored knight of the Coronavirus wars!  En guarde!

The granddaughter is one of those people who needs help and receives it from the government.  (The daughter is a felon and sex worker professional, and the grandmother took custody to stop continued sexual abuse.)  My experience with the system is that you have all sorts of trouble making a profit by leeching off the government.  The government assistance is less than it takes to bring up a daughter properly.  I would say my opinion is informed.  Sure, abuse exists, and there are bad people in the system preventing those from receiving help that they really need.  I will just say that what I have experienced is not what you have alleged.

Among the red crowd, there are small government believers, there are subtle racists, and there are blatant racists.  The latter can be set aside for the moment.  The first two are rather difficult to tell apart for a blue retired professional living in a tourist community.  Thus, I avoid labeling folk.  I do keep my eyes open.  Those that repeatedly and approvingly bring up Reagan’s welfare queen myth are suspect.  They are prejudiced.  They pre judge.  They assume that a person with a given skin pigment will act in a certain way.  They are generally acting on their political views rather than anything actually seen in the real world.

Now do I need to point fingers and hurl insults to wake anyone up?

Rachel got her start as an AIDS activist, making noise to get the conservative Reagan administration to fight a deadly disease.  A few of the up and comers from that long ago fight are now pillars of the battle against the Coronavirus.  Again, the problem is a conservative racist administration that does not care to engage.

It comes back to making America great again.  We can’t bomb other country’s infrastructure as was done in World War II.  We cannot get the jobs back that were sent abroad to avoid the victories won in the labor wars, or the benefits granted in the progressive era.  What we can do is confront the division of wealth.  It cannot recreate the situation that existed in the progressive era.  We cannot be again what we once were.  It cannot help if racists keep voting to keep themselves poor so long as the minorities are poorer.

But those who are dreaming the red dream have to wake up.

My sisters fiance has some friends (business related) who live in New York. She told me what they have to say about the situation there is not good. One lives across the street from one of the hospitals. She told me that he's watched as they're loading bodies into a refrigerated truck that's parked at the hospital. I'm not denying that we have a major crisis going on now.

I didn't know that you have children. You've never mentioned children with me til now. I'm sorry about the issue with the daughter and granddaughter. I'm glad to see the grandmother stepped in and took over the responsibility of raising and providing for her. Just so you know, I have friends who are welfare recipients and friends who have children who are welfare recipient. So, I'm not a stranger to welfare recipients either. Like I said, they're every where these days. They are all single moms with kids who have never been married. We have lots of them these days. Guess what, access to free birth control ain't working. Oh, the fathers are often referred to as sperm donor. Like I've said, having it both ways isn't going to last forever.