The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(12-01-2020, 11:13 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-01-2020, 04:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I assume Biden will cause/creates more problems than he solves like the Democrats who proceeded him. I think everyone knows that COVID will be solved. So, I'll give Biden credit for keeping that promise right now. Is Biden going to solve racism? Biden would have to kill every racist regardless of their race or gender (racist blacks are just as racist as racist whites these days). Racism is still to lucrative for Biden and the Democrats to solve at this point. I don't see the SWJ's embracing equality and giving up their jobs and all the fruits associated with their jobs either. I don't see Biden stopping dumping billions of American tax dollars into corrupt institutions and countries that most Americans don't trust or give two shits about either. I don't see Biden stopping climate change in it's tracks  either.

At least he is trying to solve problems rather than perpetuating the status quo.

I agree COVID will be solved, though not before Trump and the Republicans makes it bad indeed.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in laws which changed certain racist behaviors.  It is likely to happen again if the Republican aren't in position to fight in favor of racism.

To some extent you need to enforce equality, or the racist will do what the racists have always done.  I'm not a big fan of the SJWs either, but the fight should be fought.

I do tend to think the commitment to stop climate change will fall short during the crisis.  The economic problems falling out of the the Republican lack of a COVID response are unnecessarily great.  I anticipate a green awakening, as the young prophets try to correct the inadequate response.  

The recent Republican shtick is to say that domestic spending, solving the problems of the working man and minorities, is socialism and thus not American.  I'm not buying it.  Government is necessary to attack certain problems, including domestic ones.  Making it a habit to not solve problems will in the long term eventually catch up with you.  The problems just become larger and more intense.  Ask George III, Buchanan, Hoover and Trump what happens if you choose not to attack the central issues of a crisis.  

Well, maybe not George III or Trump.  They had / have problems grasping reality.

Stopping climate change is high on the Biden agenda. It will be dealt with, and must be during the crisis if there is to be a green awakening that will take solutions further. The covid vaccines will end this current crisis in 2021, but that will not end the fourth turning. I doubt the green change will be what we need in a Biden first term, unless the miracle I predicted happens and a big Democratic victory happens in the 2022 midterms. It is possible if the millennials, all of whom will be eligible to vote for the first time, plus early Gen Z, live up to their civic archetype and vote. It will take a qualified and likable Democrat (i.e. not Kamala Harris) to be nominated in 2024 and win and carry congress with him or her in order to take the crisis mood to its climax and burst through the barriers and the resistance. This crisis climax in 2025 is still to come.

How will the voters react to the first 2 years of Biden? Will they have less to react against than they did in 1994 and 2010, because a major health care reform will not pass or get very far this time? Or will younger people give up again because the Republicans stopped Biden from getting much done, and they blame Biden unfairly, as they did to Obama in 2010 and Clinton in 1994? Biden should get some credit for handling the covid crisis better, and an economic recovery may help him and Democrats in the upcoming elections.

Biden and the blue states can do quite a lot on the climate crisis, even despite resistance from the McConnellites and Trumpists. California will lead the way under Gov. Newsom and our Democratic legislature, and General Motors is willing to get on board and adhere to CA pollution and climate standards. That may be a big deal; credit where credit is due! Electric cars will make a big difference in blue states and even in some southern red ones where alternative energy is coming online to power them. The market continues to favor solar and wind energy, and investments and jobs are growing in the renewable sector. The USA will rejoin the climate accord on Biden's Day One, and USA leadership by the Biden admin will make a difference in the world.