06-29-2020, 09:58 AM
There are two thoughts I have on that piece.
One is that you present false motives for the Democrats. I lean blue, and the motivations for the blue leaders do not mesh with mine or other blues I know. With ideological partisans this sort of attack on straw men is par for the course. They cannot deal honestly with the real motivations so they invent a motivation they can deal with. With someone trying to present ‘objective’ opinion, it shows how bad you are in evaluating other's motives. You can’t trust Generational Dynamics as the motivations of the people in your predictions are presented so weirdly and obviously off.
My other thought was in LBJ’s great miscalculation. I sort of get that he tried to buy the black vote. By pushing the war on poverty and civil rights, he put the black vote firmly in the Democratic column. Very progressive of him. What he didn’t anticipate was putting the racists in the Republican column, and that there were more racists than blacks in the US. I count the progressive era as lasting from FDR to LBJ. The conservative era runs from Nixon to hopefully Trump. LBJ by going after the black vote ended the time that America was Great.
Hopefully, the current rejection of racist violent policing marks a time where this might turn around.
One is that you present false motives for the Democrats. I lean blue, and the motivations for the blue leaders do not mesh with mine or other blues I know. With ideological partisans this sort of attack on straw men is par for the course. They cannot deal honestly with the real motivations so they invent a motivation they can deal with. With someone trying to present ‘objective’ opinion, it shows how bad you are in evaluating other's motives. You can’t trust Generational Dynamics as the motivations of the people in your predictions are presented so weirdly and obviously off.
My other thought was in LBJ’s great miscalculation. I sort of get that he tried to buy the black vote. By pushing the war on poverty and civil rights, he put the black vote firmly in the Democratic column. Very progressive of him. What he didn’t anticipate was putting the racists in the Republican column, and that there were more racists than blacks in the US. I count the progressive era as lasting from FDR to LBJ. The conservative era runs from Nixon to hopefully Trump. LBJ by going after the black vote ended the time that America was Great.
Hopefully, the current rejection of racist violent policing marks a time where this might turn around.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
