The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(08-31-2020, 01:31 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-31-2020, 09:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-31-2020, 02:21 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I've heard Pelosi was playing hardball and she won't settle for less than what she wants and feels she needs to maintain the status quo. So, I guess the blue states, blue cities. blue schools and what's left of their police forces have to go without until she becomes more reasonable  or scared about the aftermath. Like I said, we're mainly dealing with COVID19 and the financial aftermath is still  yet to come.

So far, neither Mitch McConnel nor Mark Meadows has offered an alternative, so what does that imply?  Other than handouts to his rich buddies, it appears that Trump isn't interested in helping anyone -- not surprising for a Gilded Plutocrat.

She wants 2.5 trillion to cover all sorts of wants and needs and they're at 1 trillion for needs only. (expletive deleted), we'll make do on own until she comes around to our way of thinking or finds herself coming to grips with the reality a pending financial disaster and an economic upheaval on her hands.  So, other than social security payouts and medicare coverage and an ideological preference, what do you have in common with a power hungry, greedy stuck up rich bitch from San Francisco? You forget that Trump was a rich man who took a major pay cut and lifestyle change to become our President unlike Obama who lived pay check to pay check before entering office as a US Senator and got richer and richer as he was in office. America knows, it's only some Democrats that haven't come to grips with what Americans have been telling them about their party for years.

Corporate America got huge aid to keep the economy from a tailspin reminiscent of the Great Depression through bipartisan support, and Corporate America paid us back by funding right-wing pols best described as mirror-image Marxists adept at creating suffering for others for their own gain. 

Nancy Pelosi is past eighty, and she is unlikely to change her core beliefs. Likewise Biden and McConnell. 

Donald Trump is a crony capitalist, and that is an indelible part of his character. I see little reason to believe that he will have any political relevance after January except as a scapegoat and as a model of how not to be President. And what is morally wrong with living paycheck-to-paycheck? In a corrupt plutocracy like ours, such is a badge of honor. Do you really admire Steve "Caught on a Yacht" Bannon?* Or such scum as pump-and-dump stock swindlers who fleece people of their retirement funds?

I see Barack Obama as a model of how to be President after this Crisis is over. The Mature Reactive, someone not full of himself like an arrogant Idealist and who knows that he can't get away with much, is exactly right for a society that relies upon thrift and small-business development instead of the bloating of vertically-integrated near-monopolies. We are headed to a high in which employment is a near-certainty among anyone with a work ethic, but in which small fortunes might be made by starting small businesses that do well. Small businesses make more people prosper than do corporate behemoths with executives paid lavishly to treat employees badly. Being overworked and underpaid but having no security is a raw deal for a worker, and that makes socialism attractive. 

Donald Trump has the classic faults of an Idealist generation: he is egocentric (selfish, ruthless, and arrogant) to the extreme, but he is also unlearned and intolerant, and if he is decisive he is decisively wrong. An Idealist generation can give an FDR, a Churchill, a Lincoln, a Juarez, a Mannerheim, a Gandhi, or an Adenauer; it can also give a Lenin. Trump so rends America that many conservatives are deciding to support Joe Biden. Rule of law, checks and balances, and governmental integrity are all that save us from a despot.  

*The Feds love to catch crooks indulging themselves at expensive resorts, mansions, and yachts. Figure that Federal prosecutors love to have such people as schoolteachers, librarians, engineers, and accountants on juries for mail fraud, wire fraud, or bank fraud that involve paper trails. Part of the evidence is documentation of bank accounts and high-value retail transactions.