The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(04-07-2020, 07:59 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: And the important thing is that even the conservatives are less conservative at the late stages of the Crisis.  The problem has through much blood, sweat and tears been put behind us.  Never Again.  The mood is different.  Other than trying to beef up the World Health Organization, I don’t know what exactly can be done, what lessons we will learn from all this.  If a country has elected poor leadership, the people die.  You can’t prevent that easily.  There will likely be a mood to not let the leaders ignore the science.  There will be an intolerance for lies and fantasies.  But other than getting rid of the slave compromises, I’m not sure how to write that into law.

There have been many changes suggested in the course of the current saeculum, and it will be time for them to be considered as never before and perhaps acted upon. Right now, the USA has almost 500,000 corona cases while the next nation on the list has 150,000, and the USA trend line alone continues straight up with no end in sight, because our government dropped the ball big time.

Right now, under this "executive that doesn't act," our libertarian country is not able to act on a national basis, which would mean supplying everyone with testing, masks/PPE and respirators/ventilators etc. for severe cases, which has worked in other countries. Obviously this means we need to get rid of the conservative economic libertarians in our government; overturn trickle-down free-market ideology, etc. 

Can this be put into law? Will the country break up into some set of blue and red states? Or perhaps be more tightly federalized? Will a parliamentary system replace the elected king system we have now that makes it too hard to get rid of the king? Will we get rid of the corrupt big-money politics that puts politicians in office that put profit as primary? That seems quite possible, as we discover that the president already has the power to act. But who the president is has been determined by outdated politics and by the outdated electoral college. Big money favors the libertarian ideology that says the president should not act; that government is the problem. So, much reform in this area would seems something we can sure of about what changes to the law we need, at least.

Obviously too, a nation beset with the most-severe pandemic in the world in our times, most-severely, but does not have a health system which people can depend on without forcing them into bankruptcy, needs an essential change.