The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(08-31-2020, 02:21 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-31-2020, 01:27 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(08-31-2020, 12:59 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-30-2020, 01:28 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-30-2020, 12:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You don't like warnings. You don't view giving warnings as a good/nice gesture. You don't prefer to give or receive warnings in advance. Are you a terrorist or some kind of radical?

I would care about the threats coming from most people, but from you they are a joke.  Braack, buck buck buck.

I suppose my view of history is unusual.  That might brand me as a radical. but if so most S&H fans would be radicals.  Somehow it is hard to picture Strauss and Howe as radicals, wearing Hawaiian shirts and carrying long arms.  Still, most of my expressing myself on history takes place on this site.  You would know where I stand as well as anyone, or would if you had been paying any sort of attention.  It is hard to get labeled a terrorist when I say use violence as a last resort which we have not reached yet.  Just asking that question shows how you are not absorbing what I say and writing without thinking.

Well, I do live over a thousand miles away from you and present no immediate threat to you or your life. So, you can get away with braak, buck buck buck here. In real life, it would be the other way around and you would be at my mercy. I've got a pretty good idea where you stand right now. You're right, I read what you have say and think about it and try to make sense of it but I'm not absorbing it or considering changing my mind. I think it's pretty clear that you and others on the Democratic side don't seem like or appreciate our people in uniforms and view them as a major threat. I'd say most of the people that I've tangled with over the years were radicals who weren't prepared for a real fight or planning on having to fight themselves. I say that because most of them didn't know what to do when I openly displayed a willingness to be mean,  play rough and kick some ass so to speak.

Were you arrested for assault for this behavior by one your people in uniform? You think this is any different from the rioters you and your side go on and on about? Do you think you guys playing rough, and kicking radical leftists in the ass, will decide who rules the country? Do you realize that Trump and McConnell are the ones holding up relief funds for the police? Do you realize the police are public sector workers that require "socialism" to pay for?

I've heard Pelosi was playing hardball and she won't settle for less than what she wants and feels she needs to maintain the status quo. So, I guess the blue states, blue cities. blue schools and what's left of their police forces have to go without until she becomes more reasonable  or scared about the aftermath. Like I said, we're mainly dealing with COVID19 and the financial aftermath is still  yet to come.

The status quo is Donald Trump, a logical consequence of a plutocratic culture  that holds that the common man exists solely to enrich, indulge, and obey the asset-holders and power-wielders. 

The only good that I can see in red "reforms" of education are that they tend to level the educational experiences to prepare people for low-paying dead-end jobs in an economic order that uses poverty as a tool of control. The red "reforms" might be good for people best described as on the borderline of mental retardation, which is the bare minimum for participating in the consumer economy -- you know, grocery shopping, watching mindless TV, maybe taking in an occasional movie, perhaps 'enjoying' a cigarette, and every five years or so going to an amusement park. One listens to the radio for country music if white, or rap if black. 

Note well: all despotic and dictatorial regimes fare best when people learn to an elementary level and don't go on. Propaganda on behalf of an anti-human society is most easily accepted literally and with minimal thought. What an authoritarian regime does not need is people capable of reading between the lines. Any blockhead can learn to read a highly-phonetic language that he uses all the time, as was so in the Roman Empire until about AD 300*   but reading (Latin legere) between (Latin inter) takes some intelligence. Such is the source of of the words intellect, intelligence, and their derivatives: reading between the lines, which is recognizing that there might be more to the story than is told. 

If you want to know what doomed the Soviet Union, it was of all things the engineering vital to its sophisticated weaponry. Dimwits can work on an assembly line or clerk in a shop with a sporadic supply of wares all day and go home to watch (with vodka)  low-brow programming that for most people ended with the news program Vremya, which might have as its closing story that the potato crop was coming in. A political system suited for the level of economic development of early capitalism can make a story that the potato crop is coming in a big thing. On the other hand, rockets and guidance systems necessary for fending off such from the United States of America requires well-educated engineers who need to learn among other things the formal logic to which smart American kids learn for the first time in geometry. So long as  people dedicate all their attention to mathematics, science, and engineering the system has no problems. But these smart people start using the fine tooth comb of logic to what they are told about the system and they start to see contradictions. Isn't Marxism-Leninism supposed to create a better world faster than capitalism? Add to this something obvious to any smart person: Man does not live by bread alone. Young adults spoon-fed the idea that capitalists and their progeny are vile rakes who exploit workers not only for grossly-underpaid toil but also in sybaritic indulgence of a destructive character to those used in it, they start recognizing that American factory workers live better than Soviet factory workers, and that Soviet culture is fossilized in ways that Western culture in capitalist systems isn't. What those smart people learned in elementary school, that the Soviet Union was the best of all possible worlds, was a hideous failure. 

Heed this well: Donald Trump's idea is perfectly suited to people of low intelligence, which means little ability to "read between the lines". In his ideal world, people would learn little more than bare literacy and numeracy -- enough to read warning signs and labels,  respond as desired to official and commercial communications, do mind-numbing work for the reward of sitting on a sofa to watch some mind-numbing and soul-rotting prolefeed, and perhaps have a trip every five years or so to an amusement park. Nobody would be troubled by global warming, social inequities, the witlessness of country music and the awfulness of rap... war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. We will end up with a fossilized low-brow culture and an educational system that prepares people to be the working poor who cannot rebel but also cannot improve their lives. That is what Trump stands for -- if you can read between the lines. 

I will say this -- part of the Good Life includes knowing how to live, which means that one must develop some curiosity to keep life from getting boring.  

*which is about when the Roman vernacular speech started to diverge sharply among Latin speakers from the classical standard to an extent that confusion was possible with certain grammatical necessities of Classical Latin... when "vulgar" Latin largely supplanted Classical Latin except in official communications. High-ranking Roman officials were oblivious to this change except to judge it when they encountered it within their insular world. Those elites failed to adjust to other changes in the world, but that is one of the most blatant and damaging.  "Vulgar Latin" was fully suited to sophisticated discourse, but it somehow never got used for such.