The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-12-2020, 07:50 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-11-2020, 09:51 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: But I see it as the people taking the lead and the Democrats attempting to jump on the bandwagon.  The Republican seem caught between the bandwagon and keeping the racist vote, and thus as you say are pretty much sitting this one out.  They don’t seem to see the culture changing as much of the racist culture is being submerged.

One question: will submerging the racism and racist culture just trigger a resurgence in the 1T? Exiting the Great Power saeculum, when the war was won and terms of peace set, Joe McCarthy and the HUAC spun-up a hate campaign that smeared a lot of very good people.  Are we due for that again?

I am guessing they will try.  After slavery went away, they got Jim Crow.  After the civil rights movement, blacks kept the ability to use hotels and restaurants, but there were attacks on affirmative action and the continued police violence.  Racism and tribal thinking are persistent in US culture.  The never again legislation at the end of a crisis period never quite works.  I expect something.  Still, every two or four generations the racists wind up giving up ground.