02-01-2021, 07:42 AM
(02-01-2021, 05:31 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-01-2021, 03:56 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Bob Butler 54
(01-31-2021, 08:12 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: As a matter of fact, its more likely the Democratic party fractures and implodes before the American right disappears these days.
Well, not if you look at history. The old values generally collapse in a crisis.
If you look at American history, you'll see that America has always prevailed. You're tied to the DNC. We're not tied to the GOP or the DNC. We are free to break with tradition, cut ties with the Democratic party and reestablish an American based nation.
Not really. In every crisis, the largest problems with the culture are addressed. This is the second time, with the US Civil War being the first, that race has played a large role in a crisis. That is when the two cultures primarily go head to head. In such cases, as in most cases, America has stepped further away from the Agricultural Age patterns. It has been the rural, conservative, cavalier faction that ends up adjusting its values.
But you wind up scrambling facts and history to support your mindset. People do not alter their mindsets without a traumatic trauma, and it seems that you do not value lives enough to be traumatized. Thus, you are stuck with your existing values.
As usual, Classic X'er fails to recognize that what "America" means changes as the population changes. As the population changes even what constitutes tradition changes. We need remember that we all face the same economic and existential questions of the time.
We are going to see certain ways of life more vulnerable to the Big Kill of this Crisis. The poor are obvious enough. I can also see certain patterns of life more likely to kill... People make their adjustments or risk dying.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.