The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(12-06-2020, 08:11 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-06-2020, 07:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(12-06-2020, 12:03 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(12-06-2020, 09:24 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: A recent CNN article's headline had Trump removing experts in the Pentagon and replacing them with partisan party loyalists.  It brings back memories of an old time.  Reds versus experts anyone?  Mao would be proud to be vindicated, I think.  Trump's Great Leap Forward?  At least out of the White House?   

Sad is it not?  How did we ever get this far down the rabbit hole?  Are we still the people capable of getting ourselves back out?  To be honest, I'm skeptical ... too many are still tunneling down looking for their own personal Shangri-La.

I trust that the experts will be back when Biden is President.

The experts will be back in government, but that doesn't mean Trump and the Republican base will listen to them.  To a great degree, they can continue to live in their fact free alternate reality some call Earth 2.  That is why I am so interested in the upcoming battle for the remnants of the Republican Party.

They GOP base need not listen to and heed expert advice. Earth 2 is fine with them. Earth 2 may have come into existence 2000 or so years ago in seven literal days, may have had a Great Flood in which Noah circumnavigated in forty days (maybe the Earth has grown much since then, because forty days is roughly the time it took for Columbus to cross the Atlantic in 1492 and the Pilgrims took to get to Massachusetts Bay from England... ) and maybe the Detroit Lions did once win the Super Bowl.   

I still lack the imagination to understand how listening to bad ideas in the exclusion of all else can get good results.