The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-24-2020, 01:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What can you say at this point? I was watching/listening to an informative discussion by a group of different people on Fox today. The Fox show is called Outnumbered in case you'd care to watch. The discussion was about the current state that America is in right now. Now keep in mind, the discussion was between a group of various cable news people who live and work in the Washington Belt Way. The discussion was between a member of CPAC, a couple of economic analysts/ experts, a main stream American show host and a Democratic political strategist. The show host who I highly respect as a person that you would never think that I would respect based on your beliefs, said something that resonated with me as the others were acknowledging is prime for what the Liberal's want so to speak. In other words, they acknowledged we are 4T and the Liberal's have the bulk of the advantage right now. What she said that resonated with me and reminded the three about the culture that they're related too and their heritage.  She took over and she said to them, we are Americans and Americans know how to fight there way out of things. You gotta love that about America.

I ought to pick up a few Fox programs to counter the MSNBC shows I have been watching.  Hopefully Outnumbered is in a right time slot.  If nothing else, COVUS 19 has given me enough time.

And I might be worried if the reds had a recent habit of rejecting election results.  I quite believe the rural militias would go violent if the government tried to void the Second Amendment.

But it seems quite a few reds see now how it is a good idea to solve problems.  Whether it is the virus that Trump did a bad job of solving, the people rejecting violent racial policing, or the general corruption shown in the impeachment and elsewhere, Biden numbers are going up and the people that support him had to come from somewhere.  Trump and the Republicans have just discredited themselves.  There are many reasons the old values are tanking.

Now there are some reds who have drunk too much cool aid.  They don’t care how many Americans the Republicans have killed.  They don’t care about the violence committed against Americans.  They don’t care about how corrupt the Republican are visible as being.  They are ideologically blind and determined to go down with the ship.

And, sure, Americans don’t normally go down without a fight.  This might be bothersome if they had a cause to fight for.  Are they going to risk everything for selfishness?  Maybe they believe intensely in corruption?  Maybe they are willing to die for racism?  

In a crisis it is natural to be willing to sacrifice for the common good, for the old values to be recognized with revulsion and be rejected.  The movement is happening.  Most are willing to move with the times.

But some have a locked mind and are in a state of denial.