The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-03-2020, 01:27 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I'd say owning a gun today with all that's going on and so many cities (government) refusing to uphold the law and defend property is even more important today.

I'd say the American flag and the national anthem are as if not more important today.

I'd say money to make ends meet and money to make lives better is more important than paying taxes to fund a bureaucratic establishment that doesn't want to do shit and a bunch of corrupt Democratic politicians that don't seem to know who they're supposed to working for these days.

I can sympathize with the founding fathers and gun rights far more than most on the progressive side. Those that are defending themselves, their community and enforcing the law I can see. Those who are using weapons as a prop in a political process I am less fond of. Those who are murdering people I even less fond of. Those trying to up tension in places the tensions are too high I am less fond of. I just know that in a tourist area of the bluest of blue states Massachusetts, I don’t feel gun ownership is at all necessary. Red neighborhoods adjacent to the black inner cities, perhaps more so.

I saw a lot of the flog, the anthem and the pledge of allegiance the last few weeks at both conventions. Hadn’t seen much of them at other places lately, and haven’t missed them. Important? They were used by both parties to up their patriotism quotient. They were used as PR. They seemed quite empty as they were used by the party of narcissistic com men, racists, elites and felons as much as by the Democrats. They were used as much by the party trying to manipulate the vote as the progressives. They are not as important as the American values for which they should stand, both the Roundhead and Cavalier flavors. People who live in the red bubble and are not aware or caring about how well the values are actually practiced should care more about the values the flag, anthem and pledge stand for. Racism should not be one of those values. Unfortunately, racism was more important than helping the working poor during the recent unravelling Republican time.

For the last several decades, the politicians have worked to cut domestic spending. As a result in many areas we are well behind the norm among advanced technological cultures. I am not enthralled by those who made it happen. Both parties took ‘campaign finance contributions’ to make the jobs go overseas, and I have a grudge against both establishments with ties to the elites. Overall, setting a living minimum wage, strengthening labor laws, trying to bring a few jobs back would be nice, but that is not the unraveling way. The profits from automation should be going more to the workers than the division of wealth.

Just thought that a report from Earth One was due.