The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(04-14-2020, 10:52 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-14-2020, 06:05 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: ... Do you have a moral advantage over me? Do you REALLY have any advantage over me at all?

I won’t answer all of those questions, but the one about moral difference stands out.  Are you able to sense other’s peoples problems, have sympathy, and try to do something about it?  If not, there is a lack.  If you look at the rural - urban divide, it would seem the people in the middle of the country have a lack in spades.

I don’t think it an absolute lack, but attribute it to tribal thinking.  They care, but only about people like them.  They are ready to throw people with skin pigmentation differences, people who immigrated more recently, or minorities in general, to the wolves.

I see it as one aspect of the red blue divide.  It seems to be part of the S&H theory.  The Unraveling is a time of maximum selfishness, of minimum commitment to the country, to the common good.  Things change after the Trigger.

H-m-m-m.  I live in very Red country, so I know many folks with that philosophical bent.  I find my Red friends, and I do have them, very generous on a one-to-one basis.  They're always ready and more than willing to help those they feel are deserving -- which tends to limit the extent of their sympathy to (1) friends and relatives (2) people they know through church (3) people they hear about through (1) or (2).  The idea of abstract generosity to the vast many is like a fish riding a bicycle -- more or less inconceivable.  Make it communal (i.e. tax based), and it becomes theft.