The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-29-2020, 11:27 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You voted for Biden and the return to the status quo. So, it's all on you and everyone else who voted for him. You also voted to establish China as the new world leader as well. I hope the Democrats are prepared to deal with continued decline and the reality of a national split occurring on its watch so to speak. I think you guys did a wonderful job setting yourselves up for failure. Just so you know, I understand that we're going to take some lumps too.

I would hardly call a vote for the new values candidate at the early day of the crisis as "the return to the status quo".  Your perception of the situation is a confused to say the least.  We shall see what happens when Biden actually gets in power.  Trump took sides with the bug, with the police violence, with the systematic racism and exasperating global warming.  We will see what happens after a new values guy gets power.  The last time that happened was FDR's Hundred Days.  I see Biden with at least that much urgency, reversing a bunch of Trump executive orders.  I wouldn't be surprised to see him halt the Inauguration ceremonies after the oath to sign a bunch of executive orders prepared in advance.  Then the parade.

The Republicans seems to be equating socialism with domestic spending.  If Americans help each other and work together, this is considered not American.  This has been taken well beyond the point of best return.  The division of wealth has got extreme as a result.  The conservative attacks on labor unions, benefits, jobs, the working man and minorities will make it easy for Biden to seem a good change.

People cling to the world views, though.  They disregard whatever facts discredit whatever they chose to believe in.  Normally it take a failure on the scale of Atlanta in the US Civil War or Hiroshima in World War II before the worth of the old values makes a conservative clinging to the old values fade.  Well, COVID is getting there.  Centuries of opposing minorities have gotten there.  The electoral loss seems to be starting the transition.  We will have to see how it goes.

Will a remnant of the old values dominate the Republicans?  Will Trumps rabid base be a more potent than the old Republican establishment or the attempts by groups like the Lincoln Project?

I almost hope so.  I'd just as soon wish your Americans to go crazy.  It would nice to be going up against a group of losers, to have the field effectively free for the new values.  Trump's lies, treason and economic headaches look to be coming home to roost with the loss of his immunity to prosecution.  It won't take a vindictive Biden administration to keep Trump tied up in court.  All it will take is prosecutors going after the low hanging fruit, the cities where he had rallies suing for their debts, those with claims on his debts not wanting to be last at the table to collect.

The Republican base fell in love with first Palin then Trump.  A new guy could fight for the base in the face of Trump trying to maintain his dominant position.  This could become a fourth force striving to become the dominant force of the new Republicans.

It looks to be all downhill for the old values.  We will have to keep watch as the lawsuits continue to fail, the revenge phase and pardon phase play out, and the Georgia races for the senate are run, what happens to Republican obstructionism, and Biden takes charge.  In his urge to cripple Biden, he is hurting America.  This could prove counterproductive in the longer term.