The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

Generally, people predict at the T4T sites what they want to happen.  Especially among political partisans, it is less a prediction than wishful thinking.  Folks find ways of looking at things which justify what they want to justify.  Some people can even justify killing grandma for cash and think such thoughts are American.  

I think I'm a bit different when I predict the see saw.  The White House has kept switching hands during the unraveling and early crisis configuration.  The middle seems to keep quiet, but they have kept the party in power from getting comfortable.  They have kept us see sawing.  

We'll see if it shifts in the high, how the new normal is defined and how hard the lessons learned in the crisis get enforced.  I sort of anticipate the usual rejection of the conservative position with a healthy never again element.  I'm still seeing most of America valuing lives over dollars.  If that dominates the crisis, it will open the door for the rest of the Democratic agenda that has been debated but gone nowhere (as usual) in the unravelling.  The unraveling just isn't a decisive time.  

Traditionally, the old conservative perspective gets buried for a time in the high, but some variant might come back with movements like Jim Crow.