The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(04-15-2020, 04:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-15-2020, 12:20 PM)David Horn Wrote: 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.

What makes blues think/feel they deserve our support? What have you done to deserve it? What do blues fund with our contributions? So, how many charitable organizations are there competing with the big government blues for support these days? Is big blue government legit? According to you and your pitch, it must be legit? How many America people trust big government these days? Do you ever think before you pitch? How many Americans are smarter/wiser/more knowledgeable about the big picture than Cortez or any other third rate liberal politician like her? I'm going try and make something clear to you, blue America doesn't represent half the country these days. Red America actually represents most of it these days which is why I tend to refer to them as Americans. You should gulp. I spent a few years peeling away traditional Democratic support for so called blue America or France for a better term or any other European or European influenced nation with a parliamentary form of government that isn't anything like ours or nearly as strong as ours as history has shown us with Hitler and Putin and Venezuela and Turkey and Egypt and so forth. Red American actually represents a unique blend between two dominant philosophies. That's the truth. Now, a nation like England or Norway or Sweden or Japan with an idle monarch who still has control over an elite military can dabble with Marxism without many concerns.

Your side seems to believe that the rules should be bifurcated: one set for good times and another for bad.  In good times, hard work, especially small business ownership, deserves to left alone and keep all their gains, because no one made it but them. In bad times, government must protect the interests of business and "real Americans", so we get massive bailouts.  Privatizing profits and socializing losses is crony capitalism at its worst. So, if you're willing to go out of business when the word turns bad, I'll grant you credit for consistency, even though I think it's a bad idea.