The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(08-29-2020, 07:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Classic Xers of our country do not have the sense of solidarity or community with the country at large. This guy Wade Davis presents a stunning and compassionate rebuttal to the Classic Xer/Republican philosophy: that having a common interest in the country rather than looking on social programs and necessary collective action as weakness and lack of freedom, is the reason for the current decline of the USA and the rapid approach of the end of the American era.

It is obvious to me, as Wade Davis says, that it was not the era of the Grateful Dead that has brought about this corrosive emphasis on self-reliance, but the era of Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. And this decade we have the chance and the challenge to reverse this decline and inequality, and restart progress; in which case the USA can continue to be a positive influence in the world as we had been before Reagan; as we were in the days of Lincoln and FDR.

Interesting that the word "Unravelling" is first up in describing this video, since what we know as the Unravelling or 3T was the time when this self-reliance Reaganomics trickle-down policy was most dominant.

Our 4T is the cold civil war. One side must win, or achieve political dominance and/or forge a new consensus of social democracy, or we will fail as a nation and in this 4T.

But didn’t so many of us at the time drink the Reagan Kool-Aid?  So many of us felt that RWR was the best thing to come along since sliced bread. Another way of saying that we have met the enemy and it is us?