The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-11-2020, 05:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-11-2020, 04:44 PM)Anthony Wrote:

(01-11-2020, 02:41 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Winston Churchill in his youth had this daydream.  Some day, Great Britain was going to stand against an ultimate evil, and he was going to lead his country in the style of King Arthur and save the day.  It was a harmless daydream.  It hurt nobody.

Then Hitler and fascism came along and he recognized it from his daydream.  He made a few speeches.  He set himself up to become what he always pictured himself being.

Fortunately for the West, he did it incomparably well.

And it still didn't help him in the 1945 election - just like Trump's winning World War III over the Muslims won't help Mike Pence, if the Democrats play the role of loyal opposition during the war.

Then it's single payer, here we come, in 2026.

Single payer for blue America maybe if we were to formally split and function as separate nations.

In 1945 the Brits knew that the Great Struggle was  coming to an evident end as the Devil's Reich was collapsing. Even in Asia, Britain was (liberating? reconquering?) Burma while the United States (which had more at stake in the Pacific theater) was tightening the noose on Japan  and ensuring that Malaysia, Brunei, and Hong Kong would return to Britain. Churchill's romantic dream was becoming obsolete through its military success -- and the exhaustion of British economic resources. 

What we have is unsustainable. We cannot have both an end of scarcity and grinding poverty. Feudal inequity and economic modernity are as incompatible as an alkali metal and liquid oxygen.