The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(10-31-2020, 01:15 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Crises seem inevitably to be between a conservative stay the same faction and a progressive solve the problem one.  It does not seem prudent to predict this will change.  But the issues last time were government regulation of the economy and containing autocratic dictators.  That is quite different from COVID and structural racism, the two hottest issues now.  I see no reason to expect the next crisis to have similar issues to this one.

Alas, we won't see.

Sad, but we've elected to ignore issues that won't go away. We have AGW that is totally immune to cycles other than its own.  There may be others out there awaiting as well. For example, over population may still revive in a different form.  The wonderful world without walls guarantees more disease spread, as well as invasive species creating havoc everywhere.  Our issues, or at least the ones we've decided to address, are small potatoes in the grand scheme of things -- not unimportant, surely, but human and addressable by humans if we decide to do it.

On the other hand, politics, vicious and other wise, will endure.