The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-15-2020, 08:11 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(06-15-2020, 05:03 PM)taramarie Wrote: As said it is CENTRE left. So not completely left of centre. Any person regardless of political affiliation who would lump them as one group (socialist) is an idiot. There are always variations.

In America, we have the Left and the American Left. The American Left are a lot like us. They believe in the American Constitution, they value their American rights as much as we do, they value the America flag like we do, they value American tradition and they also believe in the American rule of law as well. The Left isn't paying attention as usual because the Left believes that we are to stupid to distinguish the difference between those on the American Left and them. I was pretty much educated by the American Left. I've been tangling with the Left for many years. Eric and Dave are on the Left. PB and Bob are some where in between the Left and American Left. Which isn't a good place be when the American Left see's the writing on the wall begins to move to the the American side.

The movement is not from the new values to the old.  The Republican alliance is between the racists, the elites, and those small government hedonists who expect to stay in the unravelling state forever.  If you step back to Bush 43’s war, there was the Neo Con idea of using force to institute neocolonialism, which got stepped on by insurrection and led to a conclusion that putting boots on the ground was a bad idea.

It looks like the crisis heart issues we are seeing right now are going to diminish or destroy the conservative thinking entirely, as usual in the last several crises.  The usual high dislike of the old values ought to finish the job.  Classic is sort of in denial.

But I sympathize with one culture’s opinion of what is important to another culture is often pretty simplistic.  It is not surprising that another culture will be in another place, and concerned with different issues.