08-05-2020, 11:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2020, 11:46 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(08-05-2020, 09:55 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: As for new values, the New Deal had very broad appeal because it aimed to improve the economic lot of a multitude. There was no regional emphasis.
This time around we have this red/blue thing. These two side seem to be roughly equal in strength. I think that each would reject the imposition of the other's values.
There is nothing comparable to the New Deal, at least not yet. It may well be that America's new civic order will mean loosening up the federal structure, the country decentralizing.
Indeed, I recall a comment from American Nations, that decentralization may be the only common ground for the different regions of the country.
The two crisis events we have seen so far seem aimed at racist and violent policing, ignoring the science, the refusal to look at or solve problems due to ignoring the science. The Tea Party went at the Republicans leaning towards elitism, even if they chose to follow the wrong guy to ruin. I can see major flaws being corrected in rural thought, but I see a rebooted version of a Republican party rather than the Democrats splitting into Establishment and Radical wings. The people writing ads against Trump are just putting an emphasis on conservatism as it should be. They do not look like a force which will entirely go away.
Looking at the Lincoln Project, Republican Voters Against Trump, and VoteVets there seems to be room to rebuild the Republican Party. It seems that the rural small government element will remain. Decentralized government could come, but the desire to solve the bug fast and now regulate the racist violent police by a federal law speaks to federal centralization. So is the way Trump is dropping the ball on certain problems. The lessons learned are pointing in the short term to making the federal power stronger. Decentralization may come, but I do not see it yet.
I am seeing a new sort of New Deal Lite coming in if the Democrats manage to hold onto power for long. It won't seem like as big a deal this time around, but a good deal of the point is to solve problems the Republicans had let go for a long time, to change the weight to valuing Main Street above Wall Street. The conflict was between solve problems and small government, and small government had gone way past the point of diminishing returns. The Republican leaning towards the elites and against minorities and away from the working man might be pushed towards the working man. The Democrats could push that front for a bit a little bit.
And the economy will wind up in a mess. The distribution of wealth by making luxuries, by fixing the length of the work week and retirement age might not work.
It depends a lot on what sort of agenda Biden will push. A good part of it might be held off until the awakening.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.