03-16-2020, 11:15 PM
(03-15-2020, 09:25 PM)TheNomad Wrote: Is anyone else dumbfounded?
I urge anyone to pay attention to what is really happening between the 2 ancient emblems. Attacks and numbers. Pledging things, then spewing numbers, then the other guy attacking the numbers as false, repeat.
i'm not shocked ppl don't want to vote and see it as purposeless. As much as we want to see a different face and embodiment up there, the effort even to be involved weighed against possible benefit is a very difficult thing for a younger person to take or accept. Younger people want to be involved and excited. They know problems can be solved. They are simply lost in a ditherment of older folks who either don't trust them or don't believe in them, or the elders have something else, a very personal crusade they are on, with America as their weary platform.
It's too bad younger voters are represented by a 78-year old, and older voters by a 77-year old. Both sets of voters are on the blue team. One is deep blue, while the other is some shade of blue lighter; no-one is sure how much lighter, including the candidate.
But relatively speaking, both candidates are on the side of solving problems, not on some personal crusade. The candidates available are purely a function of the candidates who ran. Most were not good candidates, and a good president needs to be a good candidate to win, and those two characteristics are not the same. If the best candidates do not run, we are stuck with who steps up. We were always going to be stuck with 3 old geezers or maybe 4 no matter what, not because the candidates running are geezers, but because that's all that are available.
The younger folks will either need to get behind the blue candidate, or just sit back and watch the country turn and whistle in the wind as it falls apart in its tumble towards banana republic status. Which may happen anyway if the light-blue candidate cannot get things moving.
There's a chance it may survive in well-enough shape 4 years from now so that destruction leads to a new rebirth in 2024-25. But only a chance, and the resistance to change from Herd B (as you call them) will be so powerful and feel so entitled by then that violence between the herds will be inevitable, now matter who wins in 2024. And the side that brings on the violence will lose. And if it's Herd A that has to violently revolt, the country is done.