The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(09-01-2020, 01:59 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-01-2020, 12:49 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Corporate America got huge aid to keep the economy from a tailspin reminiscent of the Great Depression through bipartisan support, and Corporate America paid us back by funding right-wing pols best described as mirror-image Marxists adept at creating suffering for others for their own gain. 

Nancy Pelosi is past eighty, and she is unlikely to change her core beliefs. Likewise Biden and McConnell. 

Donald Trump is a crony capitalist, and that is an indelible part of his character. I see little reason to believe that he will have any political relevance after January except as a scapegoat and as a model of how not to be President. And what is morally wrong with living paycheck-to-paycheck? In a corrupt plutocracy like ours, such is a badge of honor. Do you really admire Steve "Caught on a Yacht" Bannon?* Or such scum as pump-and-dump stock swindlers who fleece people of their retirement funds?

I see Barack Obama as a model of how to be President after this Crisis is over. The Mature Reactive, someone not full of himself like an arrogant Idealist and who knows that he can't get away with much, is exactly right for a society that relies upon thrift and small-business development instead of the bloating of vertically-integrated near-monopolies. We are headed to a high in which employment is a near-certainty among anyone with a work ethic, but in which small fortunes might be made by starting small businesses that do well. Small businesses make more people prosper than do corporate behemoths with executives paid lavishly to treat employees badly. Being overworked and underpaid but having no security is a raw deal for a worker, and that makes socialism attractive. 

Donald Trump has the classic faults of an Idealist generation: he is egocentric (selfish, ruthless, and arrogant) to the extreme, but he is also unlearned and intolerant, and if he is decisive he is decisively wrong. An Idealist generation can give an FDR, a Churchill, a Lincoln, a Juarez, a Mannerheim, a Gandhi, or an Adenauer; it can also give a Lenin. Trump so rends America that many conservatives are deciding to support Joe Biden. Rule of law, checks and balances, and governmental integrity are all that save us from a despot.  

*The Feds love to catch crooks indulging themselves at expensive resorts, mansions, and yachts. Figure that Federal prosecutors love to have such people as schoolteachers, librarians, engineers, and accountants on juries for mail fraud, wire fraud, or bank fraud that involve paper trails. Part of the evidence is documentation of bank accounts and high-value retail transactions.

A Mature Reactive wouldn't have embarked on a world wide apology tour or accepted a Noble Peace that was obviously given to him as a gift or sicked the IRS on his political competition or allowed himself to be drug into a petty dispute between a white cop doing his job and an uppity black who took offense to it and used the race card or would have thought giving a billion in cash to a terrorist regime was a good idea and so forth. I'll give him credit for being born here. I'll give him credit for being the first Black American to become President. I'll give him credit for the death of Bin Laden and even give him credit for the removal of millions of illegal Mexicans. But other than that, he was a two bit Liberal politician with above average communication skills who served two terms because he was black. I don't care about Steve Bannon or the Koch brothers or whoever else you think I worship or admire or feel all goo goo about these days. The Republicans that are supporting Biden are ether babies who can't handle defeat or progressive minded policy wonks or minorities who think their special because their skin is brown.

A mature reactive/prophet cusper would have embarked on an apology tour which was necessary, and he did. Why reject a Nobel Peace Prize? I wish he had lived up to it a bit better, but mature people don't reject gifts. A white man killing a black man on the basis of an invalid stand your ground law unfairly applied is something that any mature person would comment on and admit that it could have happened to himself. The Iran Deal was a great breakthrough for peace, and it is the narcissist in chief who rejected and pulled out of it and thus allowed Iran to return to its nuclear program and endanger peace.

Obama served two terms DESPITE being black. He had to face inordinate hate and increased polarization from Republicans just for being a black president, and his overtures and sincere attempts to work with them were spat upon. 

The Republicans supporting Biden are just sensible people that put country above party rather than support a fake president who is grossly unfit for office, cannot manage an administration to which he appoints unqualified loyalists, endangers our environment and our climate by allowing pollution, pulls out of international agreements that we had led and which we need, makes deals with foreign dictators to support unfounded charges against his political opponent, pays off prostitutes so they don't talk about his affairs with them, uses donations to his fake charity and to his campaign for personal purposes, makes money off diplomats staying in his hotel, advocates fake medicines and herd immunity for a deadly pandemic that he calls a hoax that will just go away and rejects his scientists about, requires his cabinet officers to put themselves and himself above the law, colludes with foreign powers for his own financial and political gain, fires his appointees who answer lawful subpoenas, stokes racial hatred and violence wherever he goes and calls Nazis fine people, grossly inflates the national debt in order to give tax breaks to the rich and spend billions on the military unnecessarily, threatens not to respect the election outcome or leave office if defeated, tampers with the mail by appointing a loyalist with financial interests in its competition to intentionally delay our mail and interfere with mail-in ballots which he calls rigged without any evidence and during a pandemic which endangers the lives of those voting in-person, panders to gun rights and anti-abortion fanatics and looney conspiracy theorists, sends his unidentified goons to pick up innocent people and gas peaceful protesters in the streets to make way for a photo op, holds his convention at the White House in violation of the Hatch Act............

Things are looking up a bit for your boogaloo though; Biden has fallen behind about 2 points in the current toss-up states that voted for Trump in 2016: Iowa, Ohio, Texas and Georgia, but holds onto a slim lead in NC, and AZ, FL, PA, MN, WI and MI are still leaning Biden's way by 4-6 points or so.