The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Classic-Xer]

(08-29-2020, 07:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Classic Xers of our country do not have the sense of solidarity or community with the country at large. This guy Wade Davis presents a stunning and compassionate rebuttal to the Classic Xer/Republican philosophy: that having a common interest in the country rather than looking on social programs and necessary collective action as weakness and lack of freedom, is the reason for the current decline of the USA and the rapid approach of the end of the American era.

It is obvious to me, as Wade Davis says, that it was not the era of the Grateful Dead that has brought about this corrosive emphasis on self-reliance, but the era of Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. And this decade we have the chance and the challenge to reverse this decline and inequality, and restart progress; in which case the USA can continue to be a positive influence in the world as we had been before Reagan; as we were in the days of Lincoln and FDR.

Interesting that the word "Unravelling" is first up in describing this video, since what we know as the Unravelling or 3T was the time when this self-reliance Reaganomics trickle-down policy was most dominant.

Our 4T is the cold civil war. One side must win, or achieve political dominance and/or forge a new consensus of social democracy, or we will fail as a nation and in this 4T.

I guess we seem to be on the same page and seem to understand that the so called American Empire (50 American States and a group of protectorates) will not sustain without making some major changes here and some major cuts in foreign spending and changes of global policies that the Democrats and their global partners are vehemently opposed to these days. So, I'm sure he'll continue preaching the Liberal gospel and continue lecturing and probably do some condemning as we are transitioning to meet the challenges of the 21st century as a nation. He's right, Canada will be alright since the two of us occupy a large portion of a continent. Plus, Canada is large country with vast resources and a relatively small population with a small military and a small navy that Russia could defeat. Did you notice how many times he kind of contradicted himself during his lecture. I think its pretty clear that the Liberal side views COVID much differently than the conservatives view it. We obviously don't view it nearly as bad as the liberals.