The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(09-18-2020, 07:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-18-2020, 02:07 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: We need to defeat Trump and the Republicans so badly that they are sent home to reconsider their ideas and ideology. We need to defeat them from now on, and so badly that Democrats no longer feel compelled to compromise with them and defer to their power.

Most significantly, the worst of our Boomer Generations, the ones who have the vices (ruthlessness, selfishness, and arrogance) without two of the virtues (education, principle)... I am satisfied that Trump is decisive, but he is decisively wrong...  are cast out of real power. The worst Boomers act like reincarnations of old feudal lords, people who believe that the common man exists solely for the power, indulgence, and gain  of those on the economic apex.  I look at Howe and Strauss theory and recognize the usual bond between elder Idealist and younger Civic is one between austere credibility by the Idealist generation and selfless efforts to improve the overall world for its own sake. Optimally the Idealist Generation accepts that in return for giving up- on glitz and 'luxury' it shows what it can do in reshaping a world that will outlast that generation. Donald Trump fails to fit that bill. 

Ideally we Boomers want a safer, saner, and more just world as our legacy. We have yet to bequeath that. But it is important. Some of us still have as many as three decades more to live, and a dangerous, crazy, brutal world has never been a good one for the elderly. To get that safer and saner, let alone more just world, many of us will need to downsize -- at the least to make life comprehensible.

I'm sorry but the Left Wing boomers are the worst of the Boomer Generation. Selfless effort for it's own sake sounds pretty selfish to me. If you were able to read what you write and the presence of mind to take others who are reading and judging you into account. You don't think Trump has given up his lavish lifestyle to save an American class that was being shredded by one sided trade deals and stiff environmental regulations and restrictions and high taxation and greedy union people who couldn't grasp the idea that the unions representing them weren't the companies paying their wages or grasp the fact that the country they were living in wasn't the same as the Communist/Marxist believing countries. Here's the deal, if boomers like you want a safer, saner and more just world then stop posting and stop participating in Left Wing fear campaigns and stop embracing and promoting the value of victim hood because all your doing is contributing to an obvious problem that will most likely be dealt with harshly like it was in the past.