The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-29-2020, 08:34 AM)David Horn Wrote: There are two potential outcomes: both bad.  Outcome #1 makes the obstructionism a permanent political feature, with RW Billionaires funding all sorts of legal and political mayhem. Outcome#2 leads directly to violence.  

Biden is already a lame duck by virtue of his age. Worse, the entire Democratic leadership team are way past their use-by dates.  If the Dems continue with this, it will be RBG all over again.  BTW, I'm still pissed at her for being so selfish, not that it's important now.  Back on topic: the Dems aren't ready to fight the next round with all Silent leadership.  The GOP may just win by default.

Those are the pessimistic possibilities.  There are real problems to be solved.  If Biden is the grandfather type that lets the younger progressives do their thing you might win.  Trump governed by lies.  If in the process of exposing those lies and discrediting the estsablismet and elites, the old values could lose their potency.

The problem is that in LBJ's and Nixon's time, the Democrats took the urban minorities, and lost control to the rural racists.  Thus, the conservative era.  More effort was put into making the elites richer, the working man poorer, the minorities oppressed, and the jobs abroad.  Those seem to be a modern non starter.  It is up to Biden to sell that none of it should be.  It seems possible.  The Republicans will go with the old values.

I thought Bush 43 would be the bad president that would lead into crisis.  Then Trump made his efforts pale.  Do we need someone even worse?