12-19-2018, 02:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2018, 02:42 PM by David Horn.)
(12-19-2018, 11:21 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(12-19-2018, 10:31 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: All in all, I see the hard-line Red side losing. I shall soon have a post about polling of approval of the President that expresses a cause for the Republicans losing the House majority and several Governorships in 2018 and likely further losses in 2020. Conservatism used to imply moderation, personal responsibility, and national loyalty; it will imply such again -- but probably a few years into the upcoming 1T. Conservatism has become a euphemism for economic polarization, irresponsibility of people who have all the advantages, contempt for intellectual progress, and politics best described as win-at-all-costs, even fascism.
My mother used to argue for mixed government. Neither party should be allowed to go hog wild, to run amok, implement as country wide a pattern which is disliked by half the country. That is what I see as driving the see saw. You can not let the party in power have too much power. You minimize extreme politics by putting those in power out.
So it depends on how you define winning. Flipping the see saw at this point is not winning. You have to succeed so spectacularly that the see saw doesn't stand the risk of flipping back. You have to win the opposite aspect of the country well enough to stick.
Keeping everything Even-Steven is a recipe for inaction … which is essentially the conservative option. With Trump now occupying that space, that's less true, but it still favors doing nothing rather than something. We've had 45 years of doing nothing or doing something and reversing it soon after, which ha's left us with a massive infrastructure backlog, near record inequality and no viable response to AGW. I think I'll pass.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.