04-14-2020, 01:05 PM
(04-14-2020, 07:49 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-13-2020, 10:39 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Apparently the virus may be exposing the inadequacy of the neo-liberal trickle-down approach and Trump that he might lose in November, and bring down the senate with him, and then there's a chance progress will re-start and the more long-term crises can be addressed. But the red-blue civil war will erupt again if any Democratic administration is elected, because it will enact gun control, it will raise taxes, it will reverse social conservatism, and the fanatic right-wing will violently resist.
Maybe. The Supreme Court will still be conservative, and will enforce the original interpretation of the Second Amendment. The gun prohibition should be kept to closing the loopholes in attempted guards against felons and insane. The need to raise taxes after the Coronavirus economic legislations should be obvious even to a conservative. If Biden is forced to lead, maybe he can keep a grip on the country.
We’ll see.
The gun control proposals that have been made in recent years and stopped by a vote or two are going to be passed if Democrats gain control. That may well include a ban on military weapons in civilian hands, and big magazines; the kinds of weapons used for mass shootings. Or it may not go that far. Regardless, the fanatics will rebel. I don't know how much faith the violent right-wing gun toters have in the Supreme Court though to do their bidding. I know they fiercely oppose the proposals that have been made, and I expect that the previous Scalia Court would have ruled these proposals as constitutional, based on previous rulings.
The right-wing conservatives in this country still hold that Trump is doing a good job. That's 45% of national poll respondents. So how many of them will be persuaded after the virus crisis is passed to support higher taxes remains to be seen. It won't take too many shifting left to get Democrats into office, but so many of them are so extreme that a right-wing rebellion may still erupt. Such an event does not need a majority of voters in order to happen.