11-26-2020, 11:56 PM
(11-24-2020, 04:51 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Has anyone noticed that life has suddenly become more civil? In the rural area in which I live, far fewer people wear those silly red MAGA hats. To not see those is to recognize a bit more validity in other beliefs, including my own. I don't have to get defensive as often. Maybe the hyper-partisan ship that has been the core of American political life will fade. Maybe people will start to ignore the shock-jocks (OK, terminal lung cancer will probably take Rash Libel away) and start asking about costs and benefits.
If so, it is about time.
Trump said clearly enough that COVID was a hoax, that after the election it would disappear from the coastal media and Democratic language. If anything, the coverage of COVID is increased in the blue position and press. The claim that only a rigged election could result in a Democratic victory has been confronted by a steady string of loses in the courts, no evidence of the rigging, and the Republican lawyers looking like buffoons. No sign that all those judges will show loyalty to Trumps un-American values and endorse any attempt at overturning the voters. This might lead some red leaning folks to question Trump's other lies.
Still makes me interested in which faction comes out on top of the seemingly inevitable fight over control of the Republican remnants. It still seems to me that the red blue divide will remain more potent than any establishment against progressive divide among the Democrats.
But I personally seem past predicting what will come and shifting to watching the crisis resolve itself.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.