The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(06-14-2020, 02:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(06-14-2020, 12:33 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The Left seems to be winning the hearts and minds of Americans in the last month or so, and Donald Trump seems to be headed to electoral defeat. Democrats are in a good position with which to win the Senate majority this time.

Voters under 40 are about 20% more Democratic than Republican, and they are supplanting voters over 55 who die off and are about 5% more Republican than Democratic. Figuring that the voting career of most people is about sixty years, that means that on the average about 1.6% of the electorate dies off each year, predominately in the 55+ group. 

Trump has done little to attract newer, younger voters. 

...I will be particularly delighted if Minnesota puts Trump effectively into the "He Can't Win" zone of 192 electoral votes before 11 PM on Election Night just to spite you.

The Left seems to be winning the hearts and minds of liberals as usual. So, how are they doing with the silent majority who have been watching as cops are being heavily criticized and labelled as racists, Democratic cities are being over run, Democratic punks/idiots are destroying public/private property that they view as racist and so forth. I will be delighted when you can no longer leach off us and you have to convince the urban liberals that your life matters just as much as the blacks lives that they mainly serve and seem to matter the most these days. You're going to find out that this isn't about race and it's really about class. You better start showing me common sense and you better start showing me class or your future in this country is going to be miserable.

So what has Donald Trump done with his mean-spirited demagoguery, his contempt for the intellect, and his reactionary agenda for me? We are almost all willing to do something to make a better world. 

We have some bad cops who must be drummed out of the profession... maybe even treated as the criminals that some of them have become for brutality or corruption. 

Quote:I'd say the Democratic party pretty much has a lock on the immature and the clueless/ naive voters these days.

Who said "I love low-information voters"? You know -- people whom Hillary Clinton called "deplorable" and thought that "deplorable" is a synonym for "adorable"? The sort of people who put up signs like 

"The Zoo has an African Lion
The White House has a Lyin' African"

or have a bumper sticker that reads "Don't Re-N*g 2012"... 

Eventually Trump policies will hurt white low-education voters, too.   

Quote:Did you know that Minnesota has a lot of ex-Michigan's who seen the writing on the wall pertaining to no future for them and moved here because of all the opportunities that exist here. The Democrats didn't cling to the old system like the Democrats did in your state.

Aside from Greater Detroit and Flint, Michigan is Kansas with shorelines.  

Quote:The Democrats gave way and embraced Reaganomics (pro growth) and transitioned the state to high tech and eliminated big government barriers pertaining to access to quality education.

I will be the first to recognize that the Detroit Independent School District is a mess. If I were to suggest what first to do about the mess, then I would call in a Big 8 CPA firm to audit the system -- all expenses must have some relevance to education. Anything not involving teachers' salaries, school supplies, physical plant, needed social services, and the like gets axed. Detroit schools have become a slush fund for administrators who live large while education starves. 

Quote:Do we want to be as f***ed up as Michigan/Detroit? Gee, what I'd expect to see in either Detroit or Chicago or Baltimore or some other big city occurred in our little cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Wow. What a shock? Would have been a bigger shock had it spread to our area (gun country) where the people are more heavily armed because we can afford to be professionally trained and heavily armed. Personally, I think you can pretty much write off Minnesota as a win myself. But, you're the so called expert so I'll just go a long and grant you the stage for now.

George Floyd got his breathing impaired to the extent that he suffocated. 

Firearms would have done nothing to save George Floyd's life. 

Quote:Did you know that seven counties were forced to  live under curfews and  go without  their stores  while a bunch of idiots were going nuts and destroying a bunch of stuff and f(oul)ng up lives of people who nothing to do with what took place with George Floyd  and a group of Minneapolis cops and the repercussions of a dickhead blue mayor blurting out without thinking of all those repercussions because it was all about him and his political views at the moment. Personally, I would have clocked the dumb (expletive deleted) but I wasn't there to do it. I hate your  privileged (expletive deleted) as much as the minorities hate them. BTW, we both know that you aren't one of them even though you tried and probably dreamed of being like them. Me, I've met them at social gatherings and I didn't like them and wanted nothing to do with them.

Because of a bad cop who broke the rules of ordinary decency and good police practice. 

Quote:So, you'd rather have a senile old man doing whatever the liberals want, the world wants and doing whatever he's told by them to do during a crucial time as your president. Me, I'd prefer to keep Trump despite his personal shortcomings personality wise. The dude is an asshole but at least he's not going to screw the entire country.

Donald Trump is both senile and immature.