The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-02-2020, 10:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(07-02-2020, 09:31 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-02-2020, 08:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: And there is nothing more valuable today than partisan liberal views.

In a way, I agree with you and so do the hardcore Republicans as well.

With opposite meanings.

Not necessarily.  Some of the liberal views ought to be held by many conservatives as well.  I would not mind seeing Classic elaborate.  For example the strong on defense faction and the veterans should be upset at Trump not being protective of the troops.  Those who have lost loved ones to the virus should welcome a strong scientific response.

The GOP has just been contaminated by elite and racist elements.  The Tea Party did a good enough job at dismissing the GOP establishment at high levels, and in many ways are ahead of the Democrats at getting rid of their establishment.  From the way Trump endorsed candidates are losing in the primaries, they are getting even better.  Unfortunately, in shunting aside their establishment they embraced people like Palin and Trump.  There is a certain type of spokesman that they seem ready to be duped by.  

The racists?  I would like to be able to sympathize with the conservatives being from less sparsely populated areas, and thus being more independent, less addicted to solving problems as a group.  That's not Massachusetts, but Massachusetts is not there.  Different environments, different optimal solutions to problems.

But it is hard to sympathize with the elites and racists.  The GOP is just clinging to the privileges of the Agricultural Age, perpetuating inequality.  As such, these elements need to be corrected or shunted aside rather than being sympathetic with.