Fascism is on the ballot

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-24-2020, 11:38 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Do you feel guilty about the losses millions of people are taking to protect the lives of people like you these days? Now, I understand how important your lives are to Joe Biden and how important they are to the Democratic party and I also know the difference between the elder blues and reds these days. Do you want America to become unlivable as developing nations with special protections like China, Russia are free to pollute and profit off it as much as they want these days. You know, if blues had some common sense, they'd understand us better. But, since common sense is missing/seriously lacking, we have a major communication gap that's not worth the time or the headaches to overcome.

The important difference is that many reds see their comfort in not wearing a mask and convenience in not social distancing is deemed more important than saving lives.  People are finding it acceptable to ignore the precautions, therefore the bug is continuing to gather steam which means the economy cannot recover.  Trump's failure to address the bug and thus to fix the economy will make it harder to eventually recover the economy.  It is due to the red continuing the selfishness which is the hallmark of the unravelling rather than the crisis willingness to sacrifice for the common good.

We understand that, but can't do much about it.  Oh, tying it to the S&H theory is not understood by many who have not studied the theory, but the lack of willingness to aid the community has been noted by most blues.  If this lack of willingness holds until a vaccine is developed, it may be too late for an at all quick economic recovery.

There are other differences of course.  The racists want to keep law enforcement killing blacks, enforcing structural racism. The Evangelicals want to use the government to enforce their religious values on those who do not share these values.  Neither party is willing to compromise on weapons, so nothing is being done about the Founding Fathers not foreseeing the need to limit military weapons in the hands of civilians.  I could go on.

I can regret some autocratic countries put profits ahead of their people's health.  Jobs were shipped abroad where unions, benefits, pay and the environment are not emphasized so the elites could profit from that lack.  I believe we should stop importing from such countries, but neither party has pushed in that direction yet.