09-28-2020, 01:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2020, 01:38 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(09-27-2020, 02:56 PM)sbarrera Wrote:(09-27-2020, 02:20 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-26-2020, 04:58 PM)sbarrera Wrote: But I do see that some Millennials are heeding the call of their elders to take a particular side in the Red v Blue argument.
Sure. BLM and Antifa are out there smashing store windows when it's convenient for their Boomer backers, for example. It doesn't help at all to give Millenials a future, but it does help Boomer factions channel Millenial aggression away from themselves.
The Millenials' actual problems stem from concentration of wealth and power in upper age bracket. That's only going to be fixed when enough Boomers, and maybe X, are ruined or dead, one way or anther. Boomers are too rigid to permit a more rational solution to emerge, and Millenials don't have the experience even to understand what's really going on. Any "vision" involved in what will ultimately become the solution will only emerge from trying to make sense after the fact of how we stumbled into it.
Almost all are marching only, not destroying anything, but the point is they are clearly energized and on one side of the red v. blue divide. The whole conflict over racial injustice in policing is the most obvious manifestation of the divide. One side insists that the there is racial injustice in policing and demands change, the other side that we should support police and that they aren't at fault in these cases of POC dying at the hands of law enforcement. Sometimes there are physical confronations that end badly and its always hard to be sure who is at fault, but probably the police will take the red zone side. Which is logical if you think about the nature of the split. If this is all a distraction to keep Millennials from being aware of their real problem (Marx would have said they have false consicousness instead of the correct class consciouness) then so be it. But the red and blue constellations are still there.
I mostly agree with Sbarrera on the racial issues. I think both the Black Lives Matter and Boogaloo Boys motives exist and are real, and that the Black Lives Matter is by far the dominant movement. Still, I have noted several conservatives that deliberately confuse the two motivations, will attribute the Boogaloo motivation to Black Lives matter. This seems to contain more than a little not so hidden racism. They think deliberately confusing motivation justifies continued use of violence against against minorities. When you see folks insisting on misunderstanding motives it is just to perpetuate racism.
As for the financial problems, this is classic red and blue. During the time of conservative dominance during the unravelling, the red have been cutting benefits, cutting the effectiveness of labor unions, shipping jobs abroad, increasing the division of wealth and cutting domestic spending. This effected later generations more heavily as the policies continued. We boomers caught the last leftover benefits of the progressive time, the time under progressive leadership when tax and spend liberalism made America great, but the millennials caught it bad and need to wake up. The racist attempts to hurt minorities came to hurt workers, while the red were acting in the elite’s interest.
It is all very real and very red - blue.
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