The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(12-30-2020, 07:29 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I think it's pretty obvious that the business as usual mindset that Biden now represents will be unable to continue and sustain for much longer. As I've said many times, there are a lot of you and a lot of us and returning to business as usual isn't going to please or go over well with either group at this point. If I'm reading the situation correctly, the Republican base is going to hand the Democrats a couple of Senate seats in Georgia and pretty much kill whatever resistance to change that was left within the GOP. One bold move would put the Beltway Republicans/Rhinos and the Democrats in the same boat and open the door for a much more radical/revolutionary group who are more able to match the radical Left tit for tat. As far as electing Presidents, the Democrats have the structural advantage and they have had the structural advantage for quite a while now. Biden's election pretty much proved that once and for all. Biden did what Hilary should have done four years ago. The Democrats deserve to go down hard and if you happen to be reliant upon them that's too bad and it's going to really suck to be you if that's the case.

I'm not sure you're being cynical or you really believe that the Dems have an intrinsic advantage, but which ever the case, you're wrong.  The Senate and the Electoral College both give excessive weight to low-population states -- most are Republican.   That's not open for interpretation. The numbers are clear.  And your point that the radical Left is bigger and more dominant than the radical Right is equally delusional.  It's not the radical Left that has sent armed militias into the streets.  That's on the Right.  Even the more militant wing of Antifa is typically armed with pepper spray and sticks.

And having the "Democrats ... go down hard" assumes they have been in charge.  Even the conservative think tanks agree that this is a conservative era, and has been since Reagan, or even earlier.  Today's clusterfuck is directly related to conservative ideas that shamble on like zombies even after they been shown to fail time after time -- none moreso than trickle-down economics.  Maybe the opposite might be due a chance.  So yes, Social Democracy (see Scandinavia for trenchant examples) should get a shot.  At least I hope so.