The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(10-26-2021, 12:59 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-26-2021, 12:25 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-25-2021, 07:26 AM)David Horn Wrote: ...  Today's right is so fixated on individual "rights" that any talk of communal responsibity is either ignored or actively opposed.  If you read Albion's Seed, it's a problem baked into the country since its founding.  We're essentially a divided nation trying to stay together for mutual benefit.  That may end at some point.

You better pull your head out because we are in the process of ending that relationship right now. The Democratic side better figure out how they're going to afford to pay for all their shit, all their people and some how or another defend themselves without the support of most of America down the road. So, what's the benefit of sticking with today's Left? Sorry dude, America will be better off without today's Left. Can you say the same about today's Left? The Left is largely dependent and pretty needy these days. The American Right is largely independent and able to fend for itself.

You keep making these claims, but the numbers are against you.  The Blue side is still a larger percentage of the country and resides in the areas that are wealthier and frankly more strategic. "Most of America" lives Blue, not Red.

Agreed. The blue part of the USA is where the brains are, the money, the tech innovation, the industries of tomorrow, and still some agricultural land too. The red states take the most from taxes and give the least. They have most of the military bases, which is unnecessary welfare.

The blue side has more population, but the red side can't be counted out. They have the willingness and ability to take away democracy, to replace election officials with partisan hacks, to empower legislatures to choose presidential electors, to suppress and make it harder to vote. They have gerrymandered state and federal districts. They conduct unfair voter purges. They have the filibuster, supported by two purple Democrats, to keep voting rights at bay so far. They have the Supreme Court which has or will approve many of these tactics. They demand and get border closings. They have an advantage in the electoral college, enough to win by cheating in Arizona and Georgia with this suppression of democracy, and then just 10,000 or so votes to change in Wisconsin. Meanwhile the Democrats elected a vice president who cannot win the presidency, serving under a 79-year old president with few if any other alternatives willing to run. So, the red side can't be counted out, even without considering their potential to organize a militia that could mount a larger, wider, more-violent, well-armed, and longer-lasting version of January 6th.

In the long-run, it could be that demographics mean that a new civic generation and more people of color as old white males die off shift the USA blue. But how long or how far the blue side can keep the new voters is not certain.

So far, it looks like the red side is safe from higher taxes, thanks to their filibuster and their DINO senator from AZ. Eventually they will need to be raised, and if the blue side pretty much takes over then it will happen. I hope Classic Xer's taxes go sky high and put him and his fellow fanatics out of business and in need of welfare. I doubt that will happen, but certainly their fear that it will happen, will happen. May they be afraid; very afraid. May they overplay their hand, and have it and their arms (in both senses) cut off.