The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Kinser79]

(05-18-2020, 09:33 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-18-2020, 08:34 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: But barring some disaster of epic proportions Trump will be re-elected in 2020

But what if there is such a disaster of epic proportions?  Like the botched handling of a pandemic?

(05-18-2020, 08:34 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: After 2024 the 1T will have started and we'll be in store for the Mega-Crisis that I predicted.

If the economic result of the pandemic is real, the nomads are likely to push materialism, locking down the culture and building infrastructure again.  The crisis will happen in the crisis, the high in the high.  Just had this discussion with The Nomad.

Not surprising to see people predict what they want to see.  

While I could pretty much agree with your description of the Republicans, you description of the Democrats reads more like a list of demonizations the Republicans have come up with.  I don't recognize myself at all in most of them.

1.  The President's handling of the Pandemic has been pretty much spot on.  Further it has vindicated his economic arguments.

2.  Yes the economy is in the toilet right now.  It will remain there as long as politicians insist on maintaining mass quarantines instead of opening the country back up for business.  Guess which party the governors that want to maintain indefinite lock down are from.  I'll give you a hint they aren't from the GOP.

3.  Mega-Crisis isn't something I want to predict.  It is a historical pattern.  Like the Revolutionary Saeculum was a Mega-Crisis that resulted in the final end of feudalism in Europe and the American split from Europe the next crisis will separate the current Era from the next Era.  There is a reason why Millies are so often compared to the Glorious--they are so so much alike in many important ways, namely being Nomad-Civic hybrids.

4.  The Democrats don't have any real infrastructure programs underway.  So far 500 miles of the Wall have been built.  Granted that is mostly updating and repairing existing border baracades but there are 1500 miles to go.  There are simply too many other interests opposed to high speed rail and other similar types of infrastructure while needed simply won't be built unless one proposes dismantling the automobile-industrial complex.  Try doing that without a depression that would make the 1930s look like a bad day on Wall Street.

5.  I'm not concerned about what you see yourself as being or not.  Those are the factions that make up the Democratic Party.  I should know because I was involved with the Democrats for nearly two decades on an intimate level.  There is also the possibility that you're part of the old coalition that hasn't caught on that you're not wanted or needed in the New Democratic Party.  How many people stuck with the Jackass Party after Bill Clinton and were blue collar?  Quite a lot.  In your case you might just be suffering from inertia.