The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-09-2020, 02:58 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: We understand/ know what your side represents these days and we don't get caught up in the emotional drama/aspect that's being largely driven by the blue media these days. We are mainly white (although we are less white than we were before Trump was elected) , pretty well educated (we are much better educated and more seasoned than the typical Democratic/Progressive voter these days) and more well rounded than we're given credit for as well.

In short, we don't need your politicians or your third world politics because we are all quite capable of standing on our own two feet and surviving so to speak. Just so you understand what you're really dealing with, the number of individuals like me in the country grew substantially over the last four years and the blues (Democratic side) had to scrap the bottom of the barrel of society for the votes that it needed to win and the situation for most of those who are on the Democratic side ain't going to get better for them than it is for them right now either. What you are going to see is two countries functioning more and more like two countries than anyone has ever seen in this country before now and a realization by those in DC that there is nothing that they are able to do about the growing partisan divide that exists in this country today.

What you don't seem to get is that Trump can't solve the bug, and without solving the bug you can't solve the economy.  Trump also wasn't going to solve racial inequality, without which you can't solve the violence.  Those two things make me doubt the supposed educated and well rounded characterization you are pretending to.  It sure doesn't look that way from Massachusetts, and we are more blue than blue.  

It is hard to think like Trump.  It seems like the blue states were being hit hardest by COVID at first, and he wasn't inclined to help them, and that evolved into not helping any Americans.   His eagerness to keep the economy going started him out minimizing the bug, and he has trouble changing.  He also aligned with the racists, so was more interestied in aligning with the bad cops than minorities.  He was more interested in divisive behavior and violence than listening to the people.  I can't say elite centered economics and racism is not American.  We have strong streaks of both.  Still, both are also unAmerican and wrote his doom.

At any rate, control of the senate is up to Georgia for the moment.  Another election to wait out.  Enough people were into American values than racism and elitism to make Trump go away.  We will see which of the three aspects of the old Republicans comes out on top: the elite, racist or conservative factions.  

One problem?  You don't seem to be aligned much with either of the three.