The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(05-19-2020, 10:13 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-19-2020, 09:01 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Lets see:  Small government....Reduced taxes....military preparedness.  Sounds like "Reaganism" is just good ole fashioned "Americanism".  Now if we could get that with side of isolationism and a sprinkle of autarky mixed in that would be prefect.  

All that said I'm going to be mining liberal salt come November 3rd I'm sure.

Actually, isolationism used to mean demilitarizing after every conflict.  A minimum skeleton military.  This was part of why crisis wars took typically four years or so.  We had to rebuild our military virtually from scratch, and relearn the business of war.  There was a scramble to rearm as conflicts like the Civil War and World War II came up.  Peacetime preparedness and the world's policeman role really started after World War II.

Of course abandoning preparedness now would be abandoning the field to the autocracies.  And dictators always were un American until recently.  Not surprising that you would endorse that, though.  You always have supported the elites over the people.

Someone will be mining salt, certainly.  I think with the polls favoring those supporting a more scientific response to the virus, it will become clear pretty early who that will be.

Maybe pretty soon Trump will recommend taking extra doses to salt to fight the virus?

Opinions seem to be firming up a bit. Trump's job approval is up to 46% according to realclearpolitics (which leans more to the right than Silver's outfit), but disapproval is also up to 52%.

Meanwhile Biden is up by 6-7 points over Trump right now in Arizona and Florida. Fingers crossed that it holds! (and that the people there are allowed to vote) One article said Biden's lead has been the longest and steadiest ever recorded.