Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-05-2020, 09:28 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: For over ten years, the NY Times, CNN, and the Democrats have been expressing vitriolic hatred for the 63 million Tea Partiers and Trump supporters.  They used words like "teabaggers," and expressed some of the most foul-mouthed insults to ordinary Tea Party members.  This hatred is similar to the hatred that the Nazis had for Jews, or that the Hutus had for Tutsis, or that the Democrats in the KKK a century ago had for blacks.  Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

You didn’t mention how this partisan hatred infects Generational Dynamics.  Because there is so much of this junk, you can’t trust anything in GD that requires understanding the other guy’s motivation.  Sorta natural for an unraveling.  Conservatives don’t want to change, progressives do, and they yell at each other.  It gets to the point of irrationality at times.  There just comes a time when problems have to be addressed.  Disease protocols have to be implemented.  Violent racial policing has to be outlawed.  The most severe problems faced by the culture are addressed, except some think these are features not bugs.  These have to be quashed.  It is time to quash.  The NY Times did a bit of quashing.

I think S&H called the phenomenon a crisis.

I for one was cheering the Tea Party on, initially.  When they strove to get rid of the elitist influence in the Republican Party, they were a few steps ahead of the Democrats in rejecting their unraveling establishment.  Unfortunately, the Tea Party latched onto the biggest alligator in the swamp.  There is no Tea Party anymore.  They morphed into the Trump Base.  The Establishment too is supporting Trump.

Perhaps one more Supreme Court justice, then it is time to head into history.  The Republicans will be fighting among the various factions for a while.  I don’t really see who will come up on top.

I think the coastal media is making a bit much of a deal with the drive around the hospital block and the reentry to the White House.  But, hey, if you live by the photo op, you have to expect the opposing press will try to kill you by the photo op.  Solving the problem becomes mandatory in the crisis, and the bug is a problem.  One talking head was comparing the reentry event with the Bible photo op.  Which was going to come to define the Trump presidency?  Which image will be common in the history books?  I suspect it will depend on whether COVID or Black Lives Matter is the defining issue of 2020.  I suspect it will be the bug.