The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(11-26-2020, 04:24 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(11-26-2020, 01:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It's over. Trump cannot win.

Not quite.  The recount and silly lawsuit phase is about over.  The revenge and pardon phases are beginning.  After inauguration, there has to be a fight to see who gets control of the Republican remnants.  Will Biden be able to deliver on his promises, or will Republican obstructionism continue?

One phase is over, but there are a bunch of things that have yet to play out.

The 2020 election is over. Trump cannot win. Joe Biden has enough cushion in his win that if something goes screwy in any state that he won by less than 5%, such will not be enough. Trump is asking for behavior by state legislatures that has no precedent, such as a state legislature overriding the electoral result. 

Of course I expect President Trump to take revenge, and if he does not get to pardon himself or doesn't resign so that President Pence pardons him, then he will put pressure upon President Biden. His cult remains and it will protest any legal action against the Idol with Clay Feet. (References from the Torah present themselves, do they not!)  

It would be best for Republicans that they take their licks and re-organize. They have an agenda other than the personality of Donald Trump: tax cuts for the Master Classes, regulatory relief, evisceration of labor unions, and elimination of the welfare state. The common man is in its perverse ideal to be compelled to great responsibility to enrich, defend, and indulge people of great power and wealth and no responsibility, people who remind me of the aristocratic and plutocratic elites of Germany before 1933. Those people backed you-know-who and made his rise possible. 

I don't say that a demagogue who vilifies the one model minority (German Jews) could win America over*; there are multiple model minorities in America (Jews, Muslims, East/South/Southeast Asians, middle-class Hispanics, and LGBT people), and most white people can relate to at least one of these groups. The slogan "Make America Great Again" means to Trump cultists (who will likely find someone else after Trump as their Idol who touches the right keys on the organ) whatever they want it to be... but I interpret it as a return to the dominant ideology of the 1920's with a concession only to technologies. America had at most a tiny middle class in the 1920's and didn't become largely middle-class (or at least well-paid industrial workers who at least had middle-income wages) until after World War II and decided that the vast majority of Americans (maybe blacks and Hispanics excluded) deserved such.

I expect the Republican Party, which largely represents America's big farmers, big urban landlords, industrialists, financiers, and executives to act much like the elites of Germany in the Weimar Republic and insist upon making America great -- for themselves alone! They want government to represent wealth and bureaucratic power within corporate America at the expense of all else. I expect the Hard Right to push another mass movement similar to the Tea Party that endorses a Profits-First economy in every aspect of life so that America can be great again -- if by that one means the 1920's except for having better roads (with hefty tolls attached), better technology of medicine (but fiendishly expensive so people must choose between impoverishing their friends and relatives and dying), and technologies of entertainment (which people won't get to enjoy because they will work 70 hours a week for food, rent, warmth, and rags... maybe commute costs) that will be  turned into technologies of surveillance. These elites want economic rent -- easy money for plutocrats -- to dominate the economy. It is a new form of aristocracy.

Allegedly the rule of the "betters", aristocracy almost invariably degenerates into an order of class privilege in which the rulers are responsible only to themselves. I count on the irresponsible rich putting emphasis on fossil fuels over solar power unless they can get command of solar power. I expect them to want wars for profit, as in 'liberating' Cuba and Venezuela. If those elites get their way then we all have nothing to for which to strive except for Pie In the Sky When You Die, such to be earned by slave-like dedication to an effete but rapacious Master Class.

*There was nothing wrong with the German people before 1945 that Judaism would not have solved. They would have had to give up the 'master race' hogwash incompatible with Judaism, but that would have saved Germans and those that they ended up brutalizing much grief. Traditional German cuisine is about as far from kosher as is possible, but there is Reform.