12-13-2020, 12:18 PM
(12-12-2020, 02:17 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-11-2020, 03:01 PM)CH86 Wrote: Classic is only incorrect in that he sees a purely GOP base movement leading the struggle against the DNC. Eric, Pbrower and B Butler Saying that democrats outnumber Trumps post-election diehards is only technically correct, and barely so. It is correct only based on the current alignments of november/december 2020 that exist as we currently speak. But the Great Realignment I speak of is relevant for 2022-2023, said realignment hasn't taken place yet. Moderates, Progressives, and Anti-Trump republicans have no reason to remain allied with Liberals if Trump leaves. The Only reason Kamala is part of the ticket is because the 60s radicals and church blacks threatened not to vote for their own nominee if she wasn't on the ticket.
We are leading it now and I expect that will continue throughout the struggle with the DNC.
Joe Biden will have the stage, and I expect him to offer a coherent alternative to Trumpism. Genuine conservatives who owe more to Burke, Churchill, or even Reagan than to Trump are going to recognize what is not so conservative about Donald Trump -- his vile lifestyle, his demagoguery, and his debasement of much that gives people a chance to escape grinding poverty (like formal education). Trump has used the Treasury to buy political support, which is a sick perversion of politics. Sure, he got his way, but if conservatives rail against liberals when they show a desire to increase welfare payments as (at least as conservatives understand it) an effort to get people to vote for them they might as well say the same thing about farm subsidies... which go heavily to bloated corporate farmers who have economies of scale that small farmers don't.
(Had it not been for huge farm subsidies to more than offset the effects of Trump's trade war with China, Trump would have lost more like Walter Mondale in 1984 than like Mitt Romney in 2012.
The numbers will get worse for anyone with a Trump-like agenda. The thrill is gone with the shock jocks like Rash Libel, Glenn Dreck, and Sean Hannity.
The 1960's radicals, many of whom were Silent -- and the Boomers who were 1960's radicals were first-wave Boomers born in the mid-1940's -- are dying off. Their cultural influence is waning fast. Kamala Harris was born in 1964, so she is definitely not a '60's radical. The mainstream of the Democratic Party seems centered upon Barack Obama, and not on any 1960's radicals. Besides, Boomers may have more of a reactionary influence upon American politics through their stay in executive suites in which they became some of the most blatant pigs in American history.
Donald Trump may not be your model of a Boomer, but he is one of the most influential. His influence is all for ill.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.