(02-09-2021, 11:10 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-05-2021, 08:21 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If the Democratic Party has been slow to catch on to Millennial values, the Republican Party seems to have neglected those values completely. The Millennial Generation, as one can expect of a Civic generation, has tolerance of hierarchy and conformity only for such purposes as saving society from a clear and present danger such as the Confederacy, the Third Reich, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, or Stalinism. Civic generations do not stand for shaky injustice. Let us remember that the role of the GI generation in the demise of segregationist politics; African-Americans who had fought the Jew-baiting racists of the Third Reich could turn against the Klan, and by the mid-1960's, white GI's generally buckled to the calls for civil rights for Southern blacks. Millennial values do not include acquiescence to policies that have been tried and found to not serve their stated purpose. "Trickle-down" economics have served only economic elites.
You have no dignity left at this point. I take that back, you have whatever dignity there is, whatever remains being associated with the Democratic party these days. Oh well, we'll get to see how much integrity and character that's left and how much of the Democratic party is worth saving, preserving and carrying onward vs letting go of and leaving behind to die along with most of the West.
In case you have figured that I am in a ward for AIDS, terminal cancer, kidney failure, cirrhosis, or third-degree burns, then you are completely wrong. I am bored, broke, and lonely, part of which is my fault. I am not a country music fan, but in view of the depressive quality of most country lyrics, "Bored, Broke, and Lonely" sounds like a good title for a country-music song. Well, Nashville is about 470 miles away, and it is supposedly a good place to start over even if it is in Tennessee. Maybe one great song lyric could solve all my economic problems with a nice, active retirement. (A new Christmas carol might do much the same, as there hasn't been a good new one in America since, paradoxically, Feliz Navidad).
...It is the Republican Party that needs to rediscover virtues other than economic gain, bureaucratic power, sybaritic indulgence, social hierarchy, crony capitalism, ethnic or sectarian enmity, a narrow culture, and overt superstition. Democrats may not yet have all the answers, but they have ruled out most of the wrong answers that I associate with Donald Trump... and you, Classic X'er. What is it with the anger? Anger kills.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.