The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-19-2020, 07:37 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(12-19-2020, 04:27 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: ...  The current dialectic seems to be the red seeking to avoid change, the blue seeking to solve problems...

I honestly would like to believe this is true, but the signs seem to point elsewhere.  Red is not opposed to change at all; in fact, they pushed some outrageous radical and reprehensible change under Trump (one of the primary reasons his followers love him).  Change can be for the worse as well as the better.  And Blue is looking more and more like throwbacks to some mythical model to faux perfection, wedded in process rather than progress.  All the return-to-normal cheerleaders are out in the streets being their typical mild selves, advocating for more Clinton/Obama, as long as none of their toes get crushed.

If, as seems likely, Biden adds a Republican or two to his cabinet or the upper echelons of the West Wing, feel free to go back to sleep. We'll be in for a muddle.

I see the major issues of the crisis as being elitism, racism, sexism, environmentalism, COVID, and if the economy can be separated from elitism, that.  Class structure is the key to the first three.  We have a remnant of the Agricultural Age. Environmentalism is associated with the old belief that God gave the Earth to be exploited rather than it needing to be conserved.  We have to grow beyond it.  COVID can be lumped with being prepared for various natural disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, ocean rise and pandemics.  Trump specifically is weak on the above.  The idea that independent rural inhabitants can take care of whatever comes at them is the opposite theory.  Urban folk start thinking of saving a whole city.  Working together and having a plan seems a better solution.

What do you see as the crisis issues?  I can agree to a nostalgia to get away from the Trump era, but if we are to try to build back better we have to move on.  

Methinks you have been dwelling among the red too long.