Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-10-2020, 12:04 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Crisis topic A remains climate change, and it will be a key focus of Biden's agenda. He has made that clear. Biden and Democrats are hoping that Biden's time in the Senate and his friendship with McConnell will enable him to make negotiations with him. Whatever comes out of this negotiation will be inadequate. Even what normally comes from Democrats when they have the power is usually inadequate. But inadequate is much better than deliberately making the problems worse, which we had under Trump.

If we ever move from inadequate to actually solving problems, if will be necessary unfortunately for the blue side to "impose" it's culture on the red, because the red culture's entire being rests only upon opposing the necessary solutions. As I keep reminding you Bob, 4Ts are not kumbaya and let's all get along. If Biden can get a few things done by negotiation and calls for unity, well and good. But in order for a crisis style solve-the-problem mindset to happen, in our currently-polarized situation between one side that wants to solve problems and the other that wants to expand them, one side has to win, and then, as in all 4Ts, it can build consensus because it succeeds in resolving issues and moving the country forward. 

Once that is done, the ranks and power of the opposing culture diminishes, and some adherents of the reactionary culture will change their minds. It's tough to argue with success, especially among the younger people coming along. Resentments may well linger and problems resurface, as happened after the civil war, but that can't be helped-- as long as we have in the contiguous Dixie and Redneck lands a culture (Classic Xer's culture) that is dedicated to aristocracy and rooted in ancient rather than modern times.

I would differ on a few points.  If you were a patriot, a yankee, or an ally, a 4T is about kumbaya.  You bind together against the enemy and defeat him.  The question this time is whether you welcome the maybe enemy or make him a forever enemy.  I would make it his choice, not make it for him.  You are so much at the extreme that you cannot let go of the hate and unify as Biden is asking us to do.  You are insisting on the unravelling conflict perspective, refusing to adapt into the crisis mentality.  Love and peace, man.  Try to summon your inner hippie.

I am also doubtful that the environment will get the focus it deserves.  Sure, it is an element of the Democratic agenda.  We will get a few steps closer to enough in a few years.  Still, the economy will be such a wreck that I doubt we will do enough.  So far, COVID and racial violent policing have bubbled to the top of the crisis.  The desire to move to a high mood will overcome things when the bug and racism are attacked.

Will this help the millennials when the next generation of prophets goes off in the awakening?  Likely not.