11-26-2020, 09:42 AM
(11-25-2020, 05:23 PM)Mickey123 Wrote: I think you, and the members of this forum in general, are making a mistake when you try to root for one side in this conflict. You have no idea where this is headed, and there's no way to even predict whether the outcome of any battle is good or bad in the long run. Maybe Biden winning the election results in Trump refusing to leave office and we have a successful fascist takeover of the U.S. Maybe Trump leaves, and Biden in time takes us to war against Russia, and this ends in nuclear war. The outcome of all this is currently unknowable.
Sadly, there's more than a little truth to this. Issues that need addressing are not necessarily aligned with any side -- even when one side is promoting an unmitigated good. Good has a tendency to evolve; so does bad.
There are three issues that are unambiguous: climate change, pandemic control and inequality. No politician is actually doing any of those things today. Climate change is still happening, or not. Most of the actions being taken are driven by market forces, which are unlikely to be in the best interest of the majority. The pandemic may be under better control because so many vaccines are getting qualified, but there is still the issue of getting it into the arms of a skeptical public. And inequality is growing so fast that it's quickly escaping the potential of being controlled.
Other than that, have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.