Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-16-2020, 08:42 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-16-2020, 06:10 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-15-2020, 07:10 AM)David Horn Wrote: Unlike the GOPpers, Dems tend to be divisive at all times.  If Biden-Harris is a bomb, or worse: a snoozer, someone will rise up to challenge.  The Progressives are biting their collective tongues right now.  In 4 years, I don't see that still being true.  In fact, it may arrive on January 21st, 2021.

Or sooner if it is clear that Trump is out.  I sort of expect an interesting transfer of power, but as soon as the transfer is apparent the progressives are apt to find their tongues.

Real change doesn't occur from the middle.  That's so blatantly obvious, I'm a bit ashamed to even type it.  Yet the PTB in the mainstream media and both non-Trumpian parties seem oblivious to that fact.  That only leaves one conclusion: real change is both scary and undesirable.  

The non-Trumpian GOP is simply hopeless, so ignore them for a moment.  What about the Dems?  How can change occur when the party is lead by octogenarians?  Fresh thinking rarely emerges from stale minds, and these folks are well past their use-by date.

During the unravelling we saw a great deal of change from the middle. The extremists set forth their opposing agendas, but it was the middle that flip flopped between the Republicans hurting minorities by cutting domestic spending, and the Democrats helping minorities by striving to do the opposite.

In a 4T the old values go away and those looking for radical change take advantage of the vacuum. You get real change from the extreme. You get transformation.

The blue agenda was put together when the supposedly stale minds were still agile. I kind of agree a less stale mind would be preferable to implement it. Still, everybody wanted to play it carefully. The Democratic primaries seemed to find an acceptable candidate to get rid of Trump and considered that defeat more important than what comes after.

Still, we know what has to be done. There will be no vacuum of people striving to do it. If the current nominated people do not push it, we get a repeat of this crisis in 2024. The conservatives will fall in love with their latest hero while Biden tries to hold off an aggressive challenger or three. Will the new hero be viable? Will the Democrats still feel in a mood to play it safe?

But I will worry about that next year. For now, we have to watch the election.