The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-14-2020, 06:05 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Do you represent progress to me? Where are you in relationship to me. Are you REALLY smarter than me? Do you have a moral advantage over me? Do you REALLY have any advantage over me at all?

I won’t answer all of those questions, but the one about moral difference stands out.  Are you able to sense other’s peoples problems, have sympathy, and try to do something about it?  If not, there is a lack.  If you look at the rural - urban divide, it would seem the people in the middle of the country have a lack in spades.

I don’t think it an absolute lack, but attribute it to tribal thinking.  They care, but only about people like them.  They are ready to throw people with skin pigmentation differences, people who immigrated more recently, or minorities in general, to the wolves.

I see it as one aspect of the red blue divide.  It seems to be part of the S&H theory.  The Unraveling is a time of maximum selfishness, of minimum commitment to the country, to the common good.  Things change after the Trigger.