The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-05-2020, 01:20 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The Neo Cons are still around but no longer in charge as far as foreign policy.

I would say they are in charge of about nothing.  The individuals are still around, but they are tied up by the feeling of both parties that boots on the ground are a bad idea.

(09-05-2020, 01:20 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Trump is committed to peace through strength or walk lightly and carry a big stick.

Trump is committed to Trump.  He is keeping up the demonstrations against China, but that is about it.  He has blown away any former alliances to enable Putin.

(09-05-2020, 01:20 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Right now, I'd have to say that the Democratic is the more racist and more lawless and more violent of the two parties.

Racism is in part keeping the important jobs reserved for white males.  Your definition of racism is for minorities to take away jobs that are traditionally reserved to white males.  It has it backwards.

(09-05-2020, 01:20 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Granted, the American right is mainly idle and hasn't turned to violence and begun supporting violence yet.

The violent racist police have been active for several hundred years.  Most militias had in the past been much more concerned with keeping their guns than other issues.  As a result they were a force in being that never really came into play.  Well in 41's and 42's day the feds got overly aggressive, at least until the OKC bombing and the rules of engagement were pulled back.  In the last few days, however, we have so called militias starting to leave the red and rural areas to confront Black Lives Matter and black neighborhoods.  Their goal has been to instigate violence.

The real militia is all males of military age.  The state appoints officers, and could quite easily make anyone with a badge an officer in the militia, or just the state police to bypass the most militant police unions.  The rank and file must obey the officers.  The state governor has the ability to call them up if there is a state of emergency.  If things were to work as the founding fathers had intended, one of the purposes of the militia is to suppress insurrections, the governors could start calling up the militia and having the police issue orders.  In my daydreams, they would disobey, get arrested for a felony, and thus lose their right to bear arms.

The Congress can call up the militia as well, but I somehow doubt Pelosi will bless the Commander in Chief with authority over the militia.

But nobody is paying much attention to the founding fathers these days.  The original system isn't all that bad, but folks are paying too much attention to the rights, not enough to the duties.