The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(02-04-2022, 03:08 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(02-03-2022, 03:07 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(02-03-2022, 06:21 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(02-02-2022, 02:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It is a battle FOR America, not a battle WITH America.

Dude, a battle FOR America that doesn't involve a battle WITH America is meaningless.

Dude, as you do not have the excuse of being a non-native speaker of English, you have no excuse for such bungling of pronouns. (Pronouns are the trickiest words in foreign languages).

When someone does a horrible deed against one set of Americans (let us say people mowing down members of synagogues or historically-black churches, or for that matter the terrorists who turned commercial jetliners into weapons of mass destruction) one does it against us all. Dylann Roof (who lethally mowed down ten black people in a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina and killed nine) is a tragedy, but he is also a traitor. He may end up paying with his life.  

I recognize Trump supporters all over America as no less American than I. Of course their interpretation of what constitutes America far narrower than mine. I also think that they are wrong in their assessment of Donald Trump. Usually the partisan divide is not so stark at that, but Trump's supporters have made such so. 

Americans have united against those who have done grave wrong to Americans, whether on 12/7/1941, 9/11/2001. or 1/6/2021. With the latter it is slower because the Bad Guys are Americans who have an ideological constituency. Some people want America to go from being an Empire of Liberty to just another evil empire that the world will little mourn upon its passing.

I pretty much repeated what an author said to me and called it meaningless. What's the problem with that? So, what happened on 1/6/2001? I assume that you meant 1/6/2021 right. Damn mistakes, they make you look stupid or foolish in your case. It's kind of like someone writing Covid 19 is as deadly as a rattle snake bite as if it's true. Shall we continue playing the game that I know how to play very well or would you prefer to take a time out?

Yes, I meant "2021". 

Typos happen when one posts quickly. Such would never pass a commercial publishing house. I do not have the services of a proofreader or copy-editor behind me. If I had the opportunity, I could be either a copywriter, copy-editor, or proofreader. It would be unwise to have me as the person who does two of such three tasks on my own. Until the Double-Zero decade, federal regulations kept investment banking, retail banking, and insurance separate even though they were all involved in large-scale dealings in money. In 2008, much as in 1929, the failure to separate those led to corruption in the economic order that manifested itself in severe meltdowns of the overall economy. It's almost as serious as saying that physicians, pharmacists, and funeral directors should be kept separate from each other even though they are often involved in situations involving the end of life.  Do you really want your physician owning stock in a pharmaceutical company or an interest in a funeral parlor? 

The statistical evidence suggests that COVID-19 is indeed about as lethal as a rattlesnake bite. At the least I know that a rattler does not want to meet me, a cat (cats are known to kill and eat rattlers after delivering a fatal bite to the neck), or a dog. I back off or the rattler does -- ideally both of us. Rattlers at the least have a rattle to scare off predators (cats and dogs) and heavy-hoofed herbivores (cattle, horses) or creatures that have characteristics of both (humans and pigs). People carrying COVID-19 do not rattle until they give the death rattle.

It is entirely a matter of taste to decide that a rattlesnake bite is worse than COVID-19. Both, aside from lethality, have different consequences. Rattler bites lead to tissue necrosis that can require plastic surgery to undo the ugliness if on the face or to gangrene that forces amputation. But if it is simply a matter of survival and death, then I get whatever inoculations are appropriate and I avoid places known to have rattlers. I used to live in Texas, and I took a dog with me on some long walks. I never saw a live rattler on one of those walks. Was it I or the dog that scared off the rattler? Or both?