Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-07-2020, 07:57 AM)David Horn Wrote: The Blue folks have had negative results with the Trumpists.  Don't try to convince them, it merely motivates them to oppose, oppose, oppose!  We have COVID hot spots in overwhelmingly Trump areas, and they go on their merry way making things even worse.  Hospitals, such as they are in rural areas, are already overwhelmed. It's the libs fault!  Nevermind that they only exist because the Dems finally passed Medicare expansion two years ago.

The only potential reversal is something so traumatic that it can't be ignored, or the death of the Boomers.  Our age group is the flame in these rural areas.  I don't see it passing until we do too.  The Red Prophets are still Prophets, and they aren't going to stop.

I’ve been optimistically looking for a principle that would lead us from the argumentative unravelling mindset to the practical problem solving crisis.  What I finally came up with was freedom against tyranny.  Freedom is letting each individual make their own choice.  Tyranny is using the government to force one culture’s choice on the other.

Obviously, freedom is preferable to tyranny.  In one case, the right to bear arms is a choice a tyrannical government would take away.  In another, the woman’s right to control her own body could be taken away.  In another, a person’s skin tone might take away his right for equal justice.

The red and blue do have distinctly different cultures.  The path to freedom means they should not try to impose their culture on the other.  If Biden attempts to find a way to solve things, to stop the conflict between the two cultures, he could do worse than adopt this principle.  If he takes sides and advocates the blue suppressing the red, it will be more of the same.