11-17-2021, 01:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2021, 01:32 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-03-2021, 10:05 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-02-2021, 12:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-02-2021, 10:26 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-02-2021, 04:17 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Wow, only 72% of USA Americans have even received one dose. And people wonder why the pandemic continues?
This fits with a prior comment I made on another thread. Dems need to quit wimping out and put vaccine mandates in place that have real teeth, then enforce them to the letter. There will be howls until they actually work, then the howlers will either shut-up or move on to another whine. Being weak is a guarantee of failiure, and the Dems have had failure imprinted on their DNA for decades. Time to grow a spine!
Yes indeed. DeBlazio is showing spine on this, although not so much on some other things.
It may be that Dems are simply incapable of being authoritarian enough when needed to prevent disasters, allowing the Reps to run the board. It's a large part of my contention that the 4T won't be successful, making the next 2T into a barnburner. It's not my preference, but it seems to be how the game is going.
Again, if our 4T is unsuccessful, for the first time in Anglo-American history, then the 2T will be a barnburner indeed, and the burning barn will be the US of A nation itself as its inevitable decline speeds up.
The Democrats must indeed be more coercive against those aspects of our society which are not in the peoples' interest, such as outsourcing, low taxes, lax environmental and worker regulations; etc. We face a choice in this 4T. Ditch neoliberalism (hopefully forever more), or we fail as a nation. It's on the ballot. I don't know if the people will choose right. It looks bad now for 2022, at least. But unless we DO, there is no further hope for our country, OR for our world. We are all toast.
It's just as if the Democrats in 1941 were not to have been "authoritarian" enough to mobilize the nation and defeat the Nazis and fascists, or else just let THEM "run the board." Thank God they were, then. But now, "this generation has a rendezvous with destiny". The Republicans are against a new FDR, just as they were against the old one. It's our choice now, and we must realize it. We let today's Nazis "run the board", or else we reclaim our nation from them.