The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(12-19-2020, 08:53 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Losing your right to vote? What really matters is meaningful choice. North Koreans have a right to vote, but obviously no choice. Theoretically you can vote for someone other than the candidates selected by the Korean Workers' Party (which is a Communist Party), but if you try you will be identified for harassment and worse by the secret police. 

I say this because Donald Trump has sought to invalidate an election so that it shows that he won. That might not be as horrible as how it is done in North Korea. Making a choice of the opposition invalid is also a denial of the meaning of a free election. Leaders simply entrench themselves. You may like that now, but what happens if your values change? What if America gets into a big mess and can't get out of it because the rigid leadership  that has entrenched itself will not allow any adjustment?

It is my assumption that my disdain for President Trump is as strong as the disdain that most Trump voters had for Hillary Clinton and now Joe Biden. That political polarization has gotten that bad is itself a problem. We have gone through all but the last month of the Trump Administration, and such misgivings as I have had of him as a person and on his political style while he campaigned for the Presidency in 2016 have proved valid. If there is any mitigation, it is that his lasting effect as President will be to have installed three Justices of the Supreme Court that some right-wing political cult approved of. Those three can practically ensure that the values of that cult be enshrined for a very long time. Basically, he who has the gold makes the rules.

At the worst, should Joe Biden deteriorate so that he should become barely presentable, then the people around him  -- mostly good people, by the way -- will squeeze him into a strictly ceremonial role. That's how it was done with Reagan.  It is probably best that Reagan's handlers concealed intimate details of his mental decline, if only for reasons of national security.

Dude, I watched for months as a bunch of Democratic cronies/hacks/partisan judges/courts ignored/by passed/abolished existing laws and then proceeded to interpret the intent of an illegal vote. What Trump is doing now, ain't nearly as bad or outrages as what the Democratic party put the entire country through back then. I've been opposed to the Democratic party ever since then. I don't even consider voting Democratic these days. Trump isn't going to give Biden and the Washington swamp that Biden now represents the satisfaction of a concession. He's going to formally resign and leave the keys to White House hanging on the door. In about a month, Trump will be free to do as he pleases because he already has the power to split the country/government right now. The GOP (the 15% that more or less helped Biden win) is more or less dead politically these days. As I mentioned before, oil and water doesn't mix. I'm one, you're the other and there's no way to change it. You may as well get used it as being the norm from now on. Are you ready to receive a nasty dose of your own nasty medicine? I can't wait til Dopey starts fucking up so I can hammer Democratic voters and start really scaring the shit out of them too? You think, Burning Looting Mayhem (BLM) was bad just wait to see they're political counter. In my opinion, we are moving towards a natural split along several lines (race, creed, religion, class, philosophy and economics). How many years have I been saying that you're digging your own graves and telling you to start paying more attention to those on your own and what you and them are GUILTY of saying about other people? Do you deserve sympathy, help or mercy at this point?