The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-19-2021, 08:14 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-13-2021, 04:20 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(05-12-2021, 07:02 PM)Einzige Wrote: That... doesn't change the fact that Biden's Administration tobdate has been way closer in tone and effectiveness to Bill Clinton than to Franklin Roosevelt.

If you live in a fact free reality, you can imagine any tone and effectiveness that will advocate your worldview.  For me, I see Biden as solving problems using approaches that are popular while ignoring the delaying obstruction of the Republicans.  I don't see anything wondrous, but he seems to be moving forward.

How is America doing as Biden is busy playing politics?

Well, it seems the Republicans are continuing obstruction.  Biden is trying to use popular solutions to real problems.  That works when you have a racist opposition trend where hurting the poor hurts the minorities worst and thus is seen by the racists as a good thing, and when you have an elitist trend where a huge division of wealth away from the poor people as a good thing.  This worked during the unraveling quite nicely.  Hurt wages, hurt benefits, hurt unions, ship jobs abroad, hurrah?  Try to reverse the unraveling pattern and there is lots of low hanging fruit?

With the George Floyd protests last year, this dynamic might well have fallen apart.  When you had elite money working with racist votes, the conservatives had the upper hand.  With Trump tugging in the racist direction, McConnell championing the elites, Chaney trying for neither and at the moment losing, and most people seeing deliberately not providing services to a minorities means not providing services at all, the picture changes.

Obama was no grey champion.  I don't think he was trying to be that, to push to success a radical progressive agenda.  Once he got Obamacare at the cost of losing the House, he gave up on moving the country forward.  What he concentrated on was being a good president, being a good person.  The racists would might try to point fingers and be outraged were shown as stupidly biased.  Trump roused that mood and made it possible to bring racism out into the open.  In doing so, he is seemingly destroying the Republicans. He is making the elitist big money with racist lots of votes alliance fall apart.

We will serif Biden continues the pattern of getting his legislative agenda passed over obstructionist opposition, justifying killing the filibuster, and pushing the blame onto the Republicans.  I for one will be looking at the legal aftermath, with the various legal difficulties Trump, his family, and his administration.  Biden had a good first 100 days, but I have a feeling we are pushing on into a more intense summer.