The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-31-2020, 09:58 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-30-2020, 01:24 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Democrats have a lot to do if they win. It's hard to remember it all. Here's just a taste...

10. I'll leave it at 10 for now, and I won't discuss gun control, abortion, women's and gay rights, trade, workers' rights, consumer rights, unions, regulating speculation, infrastructure, housing, and education here, etc., but health care and the pandemic is on everyone's mind. Trump and the repugs have slashed funding and programs for disease control and research, and it must be restored at once, including full plans to control the current and future pandemics. Health care reform must proceed with plans to move toward a medicare for all system.

Eras take a long time coming to fruition, and this one will be no exception (assuming it begins soon).  This one will be no different.

Agreed. The last progressive era ended when the racist vote turned out to be stronger than the black vote. We wound up with the conservatives dominant as a result. We have talked about the shifting demographics all through the unraveling, but that is a slow process. I suspect Trump will be the catalyst that brings America over the top, that a progressive victory Tuesday could result in a period that lasts for decades.

Crises seem inevitably to be between a conservative stay the same faction and a progressive solve the problem one. It does not seem prudent to predict this will change. But the issues last time were government regulation of the economy and containing autocratic dictators. That is quite different from COVID and structural racism, the two hottest issues now. I see no reason to expect the next crisis to have similar issues to this one.

Alas, we won't see.