05-23-2017, 03:16 AM
(05-23-2017, 01:33 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-23-2017, 12:16 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: To me what I have said on this makes eminent sense. No need to rehash. As I have also said, it makes sense these days to compromise between rural and urban needs on this issue. The rural side is not interested in compromise, however. The red side is stuck in extremism on this and all other issues. The blue side is more flexible. That is also the weakness of the blue side.
I'm not sure the red guys are as firmly stuck as they have been. Trump has taken the unraveling memes way beyond the pale, and is doing so with remarkable chaos and dysfunction. His narcissism and lack of people skills won't make it easy for him to recover. The Republicans are split. It's too soon to say where things are going, but it doesn't look like the unraveling status quo is the best bet.
The Republican Party base is at odds with its establishment which why Trump ended up as president. On the other hand, the progressives seem to be at odds with everybody. The Democrats have pretty deep divisions of its own to deal with right now.
Welcome to the wonderful world of living in a declining empire. The government is bankrupt and neither it nor the various will accept this fundamental truth. As a consequence each interest group is trying to stick everyone else with the check when the music stops.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises