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(10-06-2020, 04:48 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 01:16 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 12:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What rights of yours are being denied? You're free to speak, free to vote, free to make a living, free to defend yourself and free to own a firearm too. The only dictators that I see are on the Democratic side these days. You better start learning to play by the rules and you better start placing a higher value on the rule of law as well. You see, if we end up at war with each other, there will be no protections for you or any of your politicians and we will be free to directly engage and eliminate all of you. Dude, the only world you know is the world that we represent today. You don't know anything about living in a world like Somalia or war torn Spain or the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany or old Russia but you're going to find out soon enough if you so choose and opt to continue on the same destructive path that you're on right now.

Come the crisis, the progressives want to solve the most pressing problems facing the culture, but the conservatives think to leave the problems be.  History suggests the problems get solved.  That is how America progresses.  Today, the two problems bubbling to the top are COVID and racial violent policing.  Global Warming made the Democratic platform, but we'll see how much effort is truly applied.  As usual, the conservative faction is dragging their feet.  It will be real easy to make them look bad when the history books are written.

I am really curious as to what will happen with the Trump loyalists, the elite servitors and the true conservatives fight over the remnants of the Republican Party.

In a way, I hope the Democrats win in November because that would mark the end of the Democratic party vs prolonging it's inevitable demise.

Kübler-Ross originally developed stages to describe the process patients with terminal illness go through as they come to terms with their own deaths; it was later applied to grieving friends and family as well, who seemed to undergo a similar process.[8] The stages, popularly known by the acronym DABDA, include:[9]

1. Denial – The first reaction is denial. In this stage, individuals believe the diagnosis is somehow mistaken, and cling to a false, preferable reality.
   
   
2. Anger – When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, they become frustrated, especially at proximate individuals. Certain psychological responses of a person undergoing this phase would be: "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"; "Why would this happen?".
   
   
3. Bargaining – The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. People facing less serious trauma can bargain or seek compromise. Examples include the terminally ill person who "negotiates with God" to attend a daughter's wedding, an attempt to bargain for more time to live in exchange for a reformed lifestyle or a phrase such as "If I could trade their life for mine".
   
   
4. Depression – "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die soon, so what's the point?"; "I miss my loved one; why go on?"
   During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen.
   
   
5. Acceptance – "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it; I may as well prepare for it."
   In this last stage, individuals embrace mortality or inevitable future, or that of a loved one, or other tragic event. People dying may precede the survivors in this state, which typically comes with a calm, retrospective view for the individual, and a stable condition of emotions.
   

Which stage of grief are you now in?

1. Denial: Classic X'er's reactionary view of the world will prevail as people come to their senses. 

2. Anger: How can so many people be so blind about what liberals are doing to America as Classic X'er defines it?

3. Bargaining: Classic X'er's  "real Americans" just need to re-elect Donald Trump, win back the House, and hold onto the House just one more time to save it from a liberal-radical apocalypse. But maybe if those radicals win, "real Americans like he will be resilient enough to pick up the pieces when Democrats, Black Lives Matters, and Antifa bring about social disorder and an economic collapse. People will be begging for having cops authorized to beat confessions out of people who are soon broken on the wheel... or whatever. Minorities will know "their places" again if they don't or can't wisely return to where they came from.

4. Depression: Classic X'er  will experience as one after another State decides that  Donald Trump or Mike Pence is a non-solution on the evening of November 3, 2020. Democrats like me get the realization as we celebrate the end of an error, we get the sobering reality that we have our work cut out for us. Campaigning is far easier against a brittle target than is governing.

5. Acceptance: when more people get paid well for doing genuine work, then economic activity will make it easier for Classic X'er to sell, install, and service air conditioners. He will not like the taxes, but the added business will more than compensate. 

Quote:Yep, the conservative factions are dragging their feet with COVID19 and refusing to  open up economies and government related institutions and so forth.

I have one idea of a very effective way of spreading COVID-19: kissing, which can introduce a clean mouth to an infected mouth. It was the other part of the amorous equipment, you know, just below the place of a belt buckle, where HIV was spread from one person to another. It is not my desire to get unduly explicit, but I can even imagine COVID-19 becoming potentially another STD.

COVID-19 has killed a number of people about as large as Des Moines, Iowa in the United States. If those were war losses  and the costly stalemate were over some ill-defined national purpose, we would have protests against the political leadership. Next cities that people might know about on the grim list include Modesto (where American Graffiti unfolds) and San Bernardino in California. Both are dumps.  We are about 6000 deaths away from  the 100th-largest city in the US, Baton Rouge, also a dump and well-known as the capitol of the not-so-great state of Louisiana and the Jimmy Swaggart ministry. 

Quote:BTW, Global Warming has never been viewed by most as  a pressing issue.

The worst effects of global warming will be upon us in time for the Crisis of 2100 when hundreds of millions of peasant farmers find King Neptune confiscating their lands and livelihoods. That could be a Crisis more severe than the Crisis of 1940... the one that featured the Holocaust. I can imagine the level of mass death approaching those of either the volcanic calamity of AD 537 which destroyed what was left of classical civilization in western Europe and played havoc elsewhere worldwide -- or the mass death from Korea to Silesia and Siberia to India resulting from the Mongol conquests. 55 million deaths resulting from WWII will seem a pittance in the Crisis of 2100 if Humanity does not stop global warming.   

Quote:The Progressives are actually the ones who are in all out preservation mode right now.

No, we Progressives are the ones about to get the huge responsibilities that the greedy bastards have endowed us. 

Quote:I'm curious to see how it plays out for the Democrats as well. I mean, the Democratic population is at much greater risk than the Republican population at this point.

We are all in this mess together.