Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability

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(02-01-2021, 02:39 PM)Einzige Wrote:

(02-01-2021, 02:06 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-01-2021, 12:58 PM)Einzige Wrote: Can any of you describe the political economy of Team Fed or Team Blue in any systemic way?

For this, you must paint with a sprayer, because it's all over the map.

I can pretty well do so.

Team Red theoretically supports free markets and low taxes. In actuality it subsidizes domestic manufacturers and extractive industries, with roots in the Army and Marines (of course the militry skews conservative in general, but these are the political mainstays of the GOP there), as well as agriculture. This creates contradictions between its social base and theoretical superstructure.

Team Blue ostensibly supports leveling social programs and unions. In actuality it subsidizes foreign trade oriented industries and the emerging green and IT sectors; in the military its strength mostly lies in the Navy and Air Force. This produces contradictions between its social base and theoretical superstructure.

The interplay of these contradictions drives the dialectic of American politics.

Marxism works.

Team Red theoretically supports limited government and supports the Constitution, individual rights, the entire military (the sailors, the airmen, the infantry, special forces, marines and whoever directly commands them) and fiscal prudence as well.  If there's a contraction it's over remaining true to beliefs pertaining to limited government and fiscal prudence. The Rhino's (JFK minded Democrats/Reagan Democrats) value big government and the use of government to serve its interests and spending massive amounts of money about as much as the Blue Team. The Rhino's are pretty much on their way out at the moment (5 Senators/10 Congress people). The rest have fallen in line with the American Right's populist movement.

I know that you don't like either team and you'd prefer a team that represents pure Marxism and prefer to live in a world that's costs nothing where no one owns anything where no one cares about anything valuable and everyone is completely selfless and motivate by the goodness of producing then sharing but that world doesn't exist so you'll have to choose between the two or learn to accept whichever you view as the worst of the two and the greater threat to you personally.