Election 2020

[Eric the Green]

(08-26-2020, 10:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-25-2020, 11:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Classic Xer says that we liberal Democrats and progressives are going to face a terrible wrath and revenge from the real Americans soon unless we reject our own racism. A CNN report paints a different picture:

"..........In a recently released survey, the Public Religion Research Institute, like many other pollsters, found growing concern among Americans, including Whites, about racial inequities in policing and other aspects of American life. But it also found that Republicans had moved little, if at all, on those questions, widening the gap between the party and the rest of society.

From 2015 until 2020, the institute found, the share of both White Democrats and independents who said that police shootings of African American men are isolated incidents, rather than part of a pattern, dropped by more than 20 percentage points. That's produced a clear majority of Americans who say such shootings are part of a pattern. But 81% of White Republicans still describe these shootings as isolated incidents, down only minimally from 85% in 2015. Nearly two-thirds of White Republicans likewise still say discrimination against Whites is as big a problem as bias against African Americans, down only minimally from 2015. A growing share of all Americans, now slightly above 60%, reject that view.

On attitudes about racial bias, "Republicans have stuck it out and there is [virtually] no change, and one of their biggest base groups, White evangelical Protestants, are right there," says Jones. "Democrats have moved, independents have moved, other religious groups have moved, so it is a Republican Party and a shrinking, aging White Christian base that is increasingly out of touch with where the country is."".........

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/politics/...-isolation

Also from this article:

"Compared with the 2016 GOP convention, which rippled with unresolved tension and resistance to Trump's rise, the conspicuous absence of dissent at this year's event underscores how the President has stamped the party with his trademark as surely as if it were one of his downtown skyscrapers. The party's choice to skip passing a platform and instead approve a brief statement declaring it will "enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda" testifies to his triumph."

I am struck by the difference from the Democratic Convention. It was Biden's convention too, but the voices from the other contenders were included. One difference in particular was how it at one point was showcasing so many younger leaders coming up the ranks, presumably most of them Millennials. I didn't know almost any of them. I certainly don't know whether any of them have the talent and ambition to be elected president one day. But before long some of them may emerge as contenders. They seemed bright and energetic and willing to serve.

This contrasts sharply with the lack of prospects from Generation X. They grew up under Reagan and other influences that denigrated politics and public service. Most of their chief contenders have not been very skilled candidates so far, and a majority of them probably could be considered followers of Reagan. That generation were nomads, not civics. There are just as many talented people in their ranks. But they may not produce any presidents, because their best and most potentially-skilled candidates went into other lines of work. They may believe in business and other practical affairs, but not politics.

As the article points out, the demographics are changing. In the long run, at this point it looks like the Republicans will cling to their xenophobic nationalism and their other outdated ideologies, and fade away as they become ever more divergent with what American society and culture is becoming. In the meantime, some Generation X leaders like Kamala Harris may be in a position to be leaders, but since the most potentially-skilled leaders have gone into other lines of work, these Gen X politicians will fail. The Millennials will probably come along earlier in the 1T than usual, unless someone like Spencer Cox from the latter years of Gen X gains favor and turns out to be a typical nomad leader like Ike. The demographics and cultural shifts are changing society in the long run, but who actually leads America depends on who steps up and comes forward who can assume a leadership role.

Well, a portion of the Republicans are doing their best to keep the country from naturally splitting apart and going their separate ways by siding with what's left of the old LIBERAL establishment and shoring it up and giving it some sense of stability and credibility that the Democratic side is seriously lacking these days. I've been saying that I hope that the Democratic is able to deal with all it's issues by itself because the Democratic party has already burned the bridge with the majority of the country.

And that majority is now a minority, and shrinking, so your side has gotten desperate, hiring a con man to make your case because he's good on TV.