The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-10-2020, 07:57 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You're funny. Classic still thinks for a living and still spends time doing some thinking and some not so pretty/ raw  posting here. Dude, I'd have to be able think like you or be dumb enough or idealistic enough or poor enough or ignorant enough or black enough  or woman enough or hate Trump or hate America enough or hate the Republican or someone on the Republican side or have a government job and great benefits or a government contract that I'm really interested in order for me to go along which ain't going happen. Do know what else I see that I haven't seen before, I see a bunch of familiar faces and names of customers running for office this year. Dude, I've seen your dumb Millenials who aren't any smarter than your dumb Gen X or dumb Boomers or dumb Silents. I mean how smart do you have to be to be viewed as the one of the best of the dumb people.

It is not simply intelligence or the lack thereof.  In one’s youth, one builds a world view and associated values.  These can be seen as a short cut.  One need not fully understand a problem, but force fit it into how you perceive the world works, and what you believe you should work towards.  Once a human builds a world view and values, he is highly defensive of them and seldom will change them unless he is confronted with a situation were what he has always ‘thought’ no longer works anymore.

A 4T is a time when this failure of the old values happens to a lot of people.  A lot of people who were committed to the red world view and values are looking at Trump and rejecting the old perspective. He promised to drain the swamp and instead became the chief alligator.  He encourage the KKK and Neo Nazis to come to the fore and practice their racism, thus triggering the Black Lives Matter response.  He has rejected and bypassed many of the checks and balances written in the Constitution.

Like I was waiting for the old values to collapse in the crisis heart, but how?  The theory predicted it.  How would it happen?  I wonder no longer.

Still, this has not been enough to shift everybody.  Most are elitist or racist enough to ride Trump into the ground.  Prior crises required totally burned out Atlanta, Berlin and Hiroshima to make folks consider if the old way is truly the route to be pursued.  With the lack of crisis war triggers, how would we get the equivalent ability of a burned out city to make the conservatives reconsider?

I believe there is a place for the conservatives.  I believe the Republican Voters Against Trump,  Lincoln Project and VoteVets are leaving a more than respectable place for a conservative thought pattern which will throw away the racist and elitist components of the Republican Party.  It may take some years, but it might well come.

But cities will not burn, at least not like Atlanta, Berlin or Hiroshima.  COVID is not so blatant.  Trump’s murders are more abstract, just numbers.

But there are always people who cling to the old perspective.  They just don’t matter anymore.