The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-01-2020, 01:37 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Covid was just the trigger that marks the beginning and you just elected Hoover/Chamberlain in my opinion. Thank God, we have the freedom to split with the Democrats and place them on ignore and turn a blind eye to the violence and social unrest that occurs in their little blue countries/ strongholds/city states. We'll get to see how many Democratic believers are left after several years of steady decline, hyper inflation and increasing numbers of people with no values who are pretty much free to do whatever they want with little to no concern about the consequences for their actions. We're already seeing it now. We'll see who is on the greedy side and see who the fools are as well.

I don't see you as a big advocate of the elite, of messing up the working man, of weakening unions, of cutting benefits, about sending jobs abroad.  Neither are you a racist, hating people because of their skin color.  Neither are you a Neo-conservative, advocating the use of war to make a profit.  Neither have you been a loud advocate of COVID, about killing lots of people because you think lots of death is neat.

And yet, you are still Republican.

People are amazingly willing to disregard facts rather than change their mindset and values.  You have demonstrated this as much as anyone.  You are not the worst of those locked in the red universe, not by a long shot.

Biden has promised to commit himself to fighting COVID, elitism, racism and global warming after Trump placed himself on the wrong side of all four.  Hoover in declining government regulation and correction of the economy, Chamberlain in declining to contain autocratic military aggression, ignored the major issues of their time.  Given the major crisis level issues, Hoover, Chamberlain and Trump failed to engage.  They found reasons to stick with what had been always done before.  They tried to maintain the status quo.

I don't know how well Biden will keep his promises.  I just know he will attempt to confront the problems.  This makes George III, Buchanan, Hoover and Trump as kindred in remaining the same, in clinging with not solving problems.  It lumps George Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Churchill together with Biden in trying to solve problems.  I know Biden hasn't earned that place yet.  Those are mighty names.  He hasn't become that tightly linked to the new values and given the credit for the forces of history.  He isn't who I would have chosen for the role.  Still, he is heading in the right direction.

We'll see how determined you are to head the wrong way, to leave the very real crisis problems unaddressed.  The violence of the Black Lives Matter protests has already faded.  The Proud Boys and Wolverine Watchmen seemed the last big violent groups.  COVID is getting close to overloading the hospitals.  Getting out of the economic difficulties almost requires attacking the tremendous inequality in wealth.

We'll see if the folks that shifted over to the blue perspective shift back after Trump is no longer in the White House.  We'll see if Trump stays gone, or keeps the base as a hostage to bring the Republican Party down.  The regeneracy starts January 20th.  We'll see how the crisis flows from there.

But for a favorable place in the history book, I would say Biden has landed in the better position.