The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(08-29-2020, 01:59 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-29-2020, 12:03 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: 1. The Black bourgeoisie, a/k/a the Talented Tenth in the time of Booker T. Washington. This group has expanded, but much of it still is employed in government, or if it is not in government employment, relies heavily upon public payments for serving people on welfare, such as defense attorneys, grocery-store owners whose customers rely heavily upon food aid, medical providers who may get much of their income from Medicaid or Medicare (which means that it is more concerned with keeping Big Government serving people than cutting taxes). 

The biggest fault that white racists can find with them is that they do the worst possible thing (by racist standards)  to white people -- marrying them and having children by them. These people have much influence upon poor blacks as the only people that poor blacks can generally trust. 

As a rule the Black Bourgeoisie is well-educated, indeed better-educated than America as a whole. Trump is the most anti-intellectual President ever, but that will apply to other groups that I mention. 

Biden's group. I assume that this is the group that saved Joe Biden from being eliminated from contention and determined the color of skin of his running mate as well. I don't know how well educated they are compared to my older brother or someone like Rani or several other successful professionals with college degrees that I happen to know personally as well. I assume they weren't fond of the idea of having a white communist/socialist believing Jew associated with global interests that may not match their interests in charge of deciding who gets the most tax dollars and so forth when they know what they're going to get with Biden. In short, the big government side is as greedy when it comes to money as the private sector side. The main difference is the private sector side owns its money. Now, you have some private sectors on your side like Nancy's husband and so forth. Now, if you were to have to choose between providing welfare programs or water that people can drink knowing we can no longer afford both, which one would you pick? I'd like to see if you'd pick the same one as me. Now, shit happens as we all know and there's always a chance that we might need welfare. I've had shit happen with me a few times where I came close to needing welfare.

At this point the American economy has so much productive potential that it no longer needs mass poverty as a threat to keep people from being malingerers. Although any ideological connection to Marxism is suspect, which may have made Bernie Sanders unelectable in the end, Biden is well connected to familiar Democrats by ideology and loyalties. That has nothing to do with Sanders' Jewish origin. As a German-American and a nominal Christian I am astonished to discover how close I am by morality and culture to the Ashkenazim, the Yiddish-speaking Jews. Because of my morals, if I had to choose between being a Jew and being a Nazi I would convert to Judaism because Judaism would compromise far less of what I believe in. Let's start with "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me", which precludes any personality cult for any despot, "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not commit adultery", and above all else "Thou shalt not kill" -- all commandments established by Judaism that Christianity never rejected. Donald Trump may not be a Nazi, but he has (like all extreme narcissists) himself as a near-god; he is a thief, a serial adulterer, and a killer. If he is not culpable of murder, then he is seemingly culpable of negligent homicide on a scale now approaching 200,000. I hate to use the Stalinist smear of "enemy of the People" to describe anyone, but that is not so much a derisive smear of a political enemy as a conclusion of his behavior.    

Donald Trump aligned himself to people who share the same belief in the obnoxiousness of capitalism that Marxists claim is inevitable in capitalism -- that capitalism mandates a hierarchical, repressive, inequitable, and soul-crushing order on behalf of people dedicated more to their sybaritic indulgence than to any service to humanity. The difference between the Marxist strawman of a capitalist who lords it over the proletariat as a monopolistic or semi-feudal exploiter  and the monopolistic or semi-feudal exploiter is that the exploiter that the Marxist condemns endorses the dehumanizing aspects of capitalism as a desirable end in itself. People who value "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" inherent as a mandatory set of virtues invariably oppose a hierarchical, repressive, inequitable, soul-crushing order whether such is chattel slavery, Bolshevism, or fascism (which encompasses Mussolini's original Fascismo, Nazism, Ku Kluxism, Ba'athism, and ISIS). Much of the Great Struggle is not so much one nation against another as it is the value of human life against an ideology that seems to have found something "higher" which in fact degrades Humanity.

All that keeps us from facing the prospect of a third term of Barack Obama is the 22nd Amendment... but nothing says that we cannot elect the political figure most closely connected to Barack Obama. Obama chose Biden for ideological compatibility and for not having any semblance of self-enrichment through political life -- and not for swinging a state (Delaware is a lock, and it has the minimum of three electoral votes). After nearly four years of Donald Judas Iscariot Trump as President, a connection to Barack Obama, one of the best peacetime Presidents that we ever had, Barack Obama looks very good. Except for not being a conservative, Barack Obama is a model through his probity and respect for precedent and protocol about as good a model of a conservative leader as America can have. 

Kamala Harris has a fine legal mind, and after a President who has acted as if the decencies of rule of law and separation of powers are personal options, that is exactly what we need as an antidote to the toxic perversion of 240 years of a heritage of Constitutional government is a President and Vice-President who believe without qualification that the rule of law and separation of powers are not so much luxuries to be cast off when inconvenient as they are necessities that separate liberty from despotism.   

Is Biden perfect? Maybe not. He is at the age at which anyone can meet the Grim reaper, although I see him  in far better physical and mental health than Trump. Biden has enough judgment to decide at some point that he is not up to the job. For that reason alone I see him as a one-term President. He is the sort of leader with which we are familiar, someone who does not create problems and does not allow them to fester. Unlike Donald Trump, whose one act of alleged expression of piety was a sick sham, Joe Biden is a man of faith. That may not be my faith, but given a choice between a man who has himself as a near-god (witness the personality cult around Donald Trump) and a man of faith, I will find it easy to vote for the Christian this time. We have the choice between freedom and fascism this time.