Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[Eric the Green]

(10-14-2018, 08:22 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Hmmm...This may have something to do with the reason why Reds don't take Blues very seriously, why they don't want the Blues to ever be the ones in power and why Reds don't view Blues as genuine people who actually care about other people as much as they seem and often claim to care about the people BELOW them. Well, I'm a reddish who isn't that much below you or all that much above you at this point in our lives. This could also be the reason the two if us are rarely on the same page, rarely understanding where each other's at and misunderstandings relating to differences with values and worldviews.

You reds certainly have succeeded in keeping us blues out of power. I have to hand it to you. Of course you are not very clear in your writing much of the time, so I can't tell what the "reason" is why you Reds don't want us in power. I can surmise from my Blue point of view, and you know by now what I would say. The whole self-reliance anti-social government ideology, plus dog-whistle appeals to closet or overt racism, and the whole guns, gays and god axis.

But the Blue side as well has done a lot to sabotage itself the few times it has been allowed to take power. Only in a deep depression did a figure emerge with a 21-4 horoscope score named FDR who had the ability to lead us in a Blue direction. And Truman was OK, and he and Eisenhower at least pursued a double policy of domestic and foreign containment. Kennedy was a Blue leader who inspired the people, but was unable to get much accomplished. His martydom enabled his successor LBJ to accomplish a great deal, but LBJ also took the nation into a hopeless and unpopular, immoral war. The divisions this stoked have divided the country from that time to this, and never again has a genuine Blue leader emerged who could accomplish jack shit, both because they were too timid, and because they met so much resistance (even starting under LBJ), for whatever reason you cite.

It is very hard to break through the Red Wall. The prejudices, fears, hatreds and deceptions held by Reds are too powerful. Plus, blues having moved to blue states to escape from their spell, have left red states with disproportionate power, thanks to the constitution. This constitution and its electoral college also enabled two (recent and current) Red so-called presidents to stack the court with reactionaries. And now the young blue generation fails to vote in midterms, which enabled the older Reds to gerrymander the congress. And Blues continue to choose ineffective candidates more often than Reds do when it comes time to pick a president.