Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-03-2020, 03:51 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: We have two groups of Darwin's. One is natural and the other is not. Eventually, the two groups are going to square off. One is going to win. Nature always wins. There's a lot of you and there's a lot of us and there are obvious differences between us right now. Ones free to do as it please right and the other is restricted by laws made by humans and the laws that come from above. That's where we're at right now. Are you familiar with the laws above? I haven't seen signs that you're familiar with them so I'll assume you're not familiar with them and leave it at that.

The side that always wins is the urban, secular, roundhead faction.  With each crisis, there is a step further away from the Agricultural Age.  This time the support for the elitists and racists is questionable.  That aspect will either fade, or while it is still alive it will drag the Republicans down.  The crisis is apt to lead into another progressive period, much as it did last time.

This doesn't mean that the rural, racist, cavalier faction hasn't contributed to America.  That doesn't mean that they haven't been valuable at various times, that their traits have not contributed.  It just means that come the crisis, if they directly fight the roundhead faction, they lose.  If the last awakening of the 1960s was a time of significant cultural change, then the cavaliers lost that too.  Come the unravelling, well, they had their day.

Now there are things that the Republicans stand for that should be preserved.  A desire for small government and lower spending is natural enough, but right now it has been taken beyond the point of reasonable return.  In a crisis, you have to solve the major problems confronting the people.  You also have to keep capitalism working.  There is a fraction of truth in the old idea that what is good for General Motors is good for America.  Capitalism has to be represented and kept working.  Still, that too is an idea that has been taken too far in the unraveling.  It is time to come together and put the country ahead the desires of any special interest.

To contend to be a representative party of America, you have to have a big tent.  For a time the elites provided the money, the racists the votes, and the working man and minorities were schrod.  That alliance of elites and racists seems to be running into an unraveling end, into a crisis and regeneracy.  Problems with the culture which were long ignored are coming home to roost and must be addressed.  

If you think you will find answers on the bottom of your feet, indeed search your shoe's sole carefully.  Thing is, I'm inclined to be suspect of how the majority was kept big during the unravelling.  If you want a big tent, you will be in trouble as the elitist and racist elements that proved so important back then are fading now.  The more they cling to the old values, the faster the old values will discredit themselves.

Meanwhile, corporate interests have come to dominate many rural jobs.  If you want them to provide a good working stable job yielding a living wage, you can't go to the party of the elites.  They will push corporate interests ahead of the working guy's.  The Tea Party's original idea of separating the Republican Party from the elitist interest was sound.  For a while during the primaries leading up to the 2016 elections, the Republican establishment's candidates could not compete.  Still, the base fell in love with the biggest alligator in the swamp.  You have to be very careful who you come to follow to take Trump's place.

There is a place for the Republican Party.  It is just not what is was during the unravelling.  If you are to examine the soles of your shoes, ask how to further your real interests.  In abstract, the theory seems to predict the Democrats will again lose the support of the people come the next unraveling.  By then, the Republicans should have reinvented themselves.  I can't see exactly what the issues will be then.  Too many coasts flooding?  Too many places that were habitable becoming uninhabitable?  Too many people who have to find another place?  Too much stress on air conditioners leading to repairman becoming as stressed as medical personel are now?  Put America first?  Use force to defend resources that are becoming too rare?

But that dynamic hasn't spread yet.  We'll see what happens should it do so.