Election 2020

[David Horn]

(12-13-2020, 05:38 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 04:34 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Who cares? The Republican base has already moved on. It won't be long and Democrats will be Democrats and everyone else around them will be more Republican. Back in 2016 during the Republican primaries, did you see any candidates trying to buy their way in with us? As far as I can see, the liberal side has no principles at this point. I'm telling you whatever integrity it had left it lost. The ingredient that holds the Democratic party together is the almighty tax dollar. I wasn't born yesterday. Unfortunately, Biden is the last chance and if I'm right about his condition which I assume was mainly hid from the Democratic electorate. History will record this 3t/4T cluster fuck with the faces of 4 US Presidents who were in office over the coarse of the next four years or possibly five if Harris turns out to be completely incompetent.

I’m guessing you are wrong.  The Republicans had the advantage through the unraveling.  They ran on small government, not solving problems, low taxes, subtle racism that tried to walk back Martin Luther King’s gains, and shifting things in favor of the elites.  LBJ picked up the black vote, Nixon the racist, the racists won, and the progressive era ended.

Come the crisis, you have to solve the crisis problems.  Competency in problem solving is a key, where the Republicans are more used to obstructing attempts to solve problems.  One of the crisis problems is confronting racism.  With the economy messed up by the bug, I see no alternative to getting the elites to pay their share.  We could see the same sort of three turning progressive era as last time.

This doesn’t mean all conservative ideas are bad, that there should not be a counterweight to the progressives.  But, turnings turn.

Well said, er, written.