08-10-2021, 12:20 PM
(08-09-2021, 09:58 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The above seems a less controversial, less confrontational version of the blue narrative. I guess we do need a resolution, but I doubt it will come by just ignoring our differences.
Rachel Maddows came back from vacation this week, and basically asked (with tongue carefully in cheek) how dare they have news on the big issues while she was away? Her three leading segments were on the Covid response, the Big Lie and fighting global warming in time. My thought as she presented her segments, and rather convincingly with Dr Fauci and a senator on the relevant committee as guests, was that she was preaching to the choir. The people watching her show were blue. The people that need to save lives, reject the Big Lie and preserve the environment are not watching her show. They are going to custom red media that will tell them what they want to hear.
Now the above isn't wrong, but we can't just sidestep the key issues. The big meme of the crisis to be hammered home in the high is that we can't accept lies. I don't care if it is some media wannabe or as S&H suggested the civic generation that reinforces the point, but it has to become basic and central. We cannot live on the assumption that because it would be nice if something were so that it must be so.
I agree, we can't accept lies in the future. I think that will be impossible for most of the current red tribe, but if the politics can just shift enough to the blue side, we can defeat the red and force them to either go along or secede. That means the recent pattern of electing a blue president and congress and then throwing them out 2 years later needs to shift too in the 2020s. We need a progressive decade, and that means blue victories in midterms, which also means millennials need to realize their civic duty and participate.
I did write this much in my version: "Too many people look to sensational symbols and slogans, empty fantasies and false conspiracy theories to fill the void of distrust and explain what's happening, which only further disconnects us from realities."