We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Eric the Green]

(10-08-2020, 10:14 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(10-08-2020, 02:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-08-2020, 10:23 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-06-2020, 11:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Dude, the Democrats always have an excuse for not doing their jobs or addressing dire problems.

Ah! Something we can agree on.  Yes, the Dems are truly horrible at that.  They're the Hamlet Party.  Then again., the GOP is the Macbeth Party, which is worse.  We need an alternative.  One is unlikely to arise on the Right.  That leaves the Left.

Let's hope we don't have to wait for AOC to come of age and run for the top office.  She' 30 now, so her earliest run would be 2028.

Well, the GOP is quickly becoming the American party (you obviously don't see it that way but that's fine). The Democratic party and what's left of the Republican establishment are becoming the party of Hamlet and Macbeth as you say. It seems like every Democrat opposed to Trump and impeached Trump are using Trumps America First message/rhetoric today. I don't believe them or have faith in them but that's what they're all doing these days. How pathetic is that? I'm sure it's not pathetic to a pathetic person. So, who is still going to be around to clean up the Democratic mess and deal with all the chaos associated with failed states? I doubt you'll find many Americans who are interested in doing the job or find many who are sympathetic or want/feel obligated  to keep them either. Is AOC going to be much different than her Marxist  predecessors? Do you think her pretty brown eyes and pretty face is going to make Marxism more appealing to American tax payers?

Democrats are just as Americans as Republicans. The only connection that I can see between Democrats and either Hamlet or Macbeth is that the two are title characters of Shakespeare plays, that knowing the plays well is intellectual in nature, and that being above average in intelligence and intellectual curiosity correlates to hostility toward the anti-intellectualism of Donald Trump.

David's analogy is very apt and precise. It's the indecisive Hamlet versus the evil MacBeth. That is our choice. But our only alternative is to push and push the Hamlets into becoming Henry V. St. Crispian's Day beckons.

But AOC will never be president. It is not in the stars. I'm not sure there is a leftist around who can be elected president. I am open to suggestions, and I can score them. For sure, none of the 2020 candidates is our new Henry. I see Landrieu or McAuliffe as the only hopes at the moment, except they are Hamlets too.