The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-18-2020, 11:37 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-18-2020, 11:09 PM)Einzige Wrote: You people, again, are utterly incapable of thinking systematically. MUH TRUMP, MUH BIDEN.

You have no known system to show me that exists or existed at one time for me to think of systematically. You should also know by now that I'm quite capable of thinking systematically.

By systematically, Einzige seems to mean according to a system, a theory.  I tend to disagree.  The current dialectic seems to be the red seeking to avoid change, the blue seeking to solve problems.  True, there are several distinct issues in the difference.  Elitism, racism, the environment, immigration, economic theories, in Bush 43’s time Neo Colonialism, have splintered the discussion in part due to a complex reality.

By focusing more on the single issue of capital, Marxism is locked on a much simpler and more obsolete perspective.  The system is more obvious.  The current dominant systems are more complex.  Nowadays, capitalism is the problem with the elites, those that own the means of production and buy influence with the government.  Just one issue.

In Bush 43’s time I characterized the red administration as an alliance of Neo Conservative military people, big oil and fundamentalists.  In Trump’s time, the elite, the racists, the fundamentalists, the con men near the White House have shifted the alliance somewhat.  The core is still there, though.  Each wants to keep an old racket going.  They look to an advantage they have always had, and aim to keep it.  On the flip side, the Democrats see various problems, often associated with long existing oppression, and strive to end it.

Granted, the reality is more complex.  If you think simply, you don’t see any system, just a bunch of issues.  I think the systems are there if you want to see it.