The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-29-2021, 09:53 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-28-2021, 09:51 PM)Einzige Wrote: Four months of the Democrats’ rare and precious time with a trifecta in government has already gone by. They just sought to get a non-reconciliation bill passed by caving to every one of the Republicans’ demands and saw it get filibustered by Republicans anyway.

If you have a solution to Joe Manchin and Kristin Sinema, pray tell us what it is.  They are both dually elected members of the US Senate, and fully cognizant of what they are doing... as much as I hate it too.  It's the Titanic effect: large ships with small rudders turn slowly -- often too slowly.  At some point, the the iceberg will become unavoidably obvious, and then we can proceed -- but not until.

I like the Titanic effect metaphor.  A big ship with a small rudder.  The question is which iceberg the ship will hit first?  Will the last few Democrats kill the Biden agenda in the name of bipartisanship when the Republicans are demonstrating obstructionism?  Will Trump continue to fail to rebuild an effective network platform and become irrelevant?  Will Trump and his allies continue losing legal difficulties?  Will the majority of a minority people who would rather have a racist presidency than a democracy go violent again?

I’m just not seeing a Marxist revolution as viable.  Lots of ice out there, but not that.