The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

Back in Bush 43’s day, there was a remnant of honor in the Republican Party.  Sure, there was a touch of Neo Conservative desire to use the military now that they were the sole superpower, but it ran into proxy war insurgency.  Sure they were trying a war for oil, Neo Colonialism, with the Neo conservatives and Big Oil all over the cabinet.  But there were also some who wanted what was better for the Iraqi people.  Unfortunately, they were poisoned early by the military tendency to xenophobia, but their thinking themselves ‘winning’ if they had a high kill count, before they started fighting for hearts and minds.  If they though in terms of military force and profit from oil, they were in their own perverse ways fighting for a strong America.

But then the first black president was elected, and the racist part of the Republican Party led them to go into full scale obstruction mode.  Obama wasn’t given too much chance to be liberal.  He was lucky to get Obamacare through before the congress locked down.  Trump was still reacting to that instinct.  Everything Obama was to be undone.  It was as if he were out to prove that everything Obama was reprehensible.

Obama also had an agenda to be a good person.  Between Obama and Trump, it became clear that the pigment of one’s skin didn’t say a lot about character.  If Obama dedicated much of his energy to being a good president, a good man, the contrast with Trump may have cemented the difference between the two.

Now they have for the moment another white male president.  The blackmailer In chief is out of office, though he may take a good part of his base with him.  Note how folks like Classic and Xenakis are still lapping up his perspective.  The Republicans may or may not still be Trump’s party, still the party of obstructionism, with domestic spending treated as socialism and un American.  Thus, the working man and minorities are the enemy, much to be trampled on.

I am most curious to see if the Republican obstructionism is still dominant, with the Georgia elections and going into the mid terms.  At some point you would think they would be more concerned with helping America than hurting Democrats.  The racists and elites made their point.  They maximized the division of wealth, and presented skin pigmentation as more important than the people.  

Will they be able to project the old values and win?  Will enough people who switched over in rejection of Trump stick.  Will the old progressive time of tax and spend liberalism make America great again?