What Democrats and Republicans want

[David Horn]

(03-02-2017, 07:10 AM)Mickey123 Wrote:

(03-02-2017, 06:28 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Republicans want as much money as possible for their rich clientele, at the expense of the rest of us. Democrats want good opportunity for everyone. The crisis is the conflict between these desires.

No, the crisis isn't just a result of different people wanting different things and fighting over them.

A crisis is the only way the unraveling can be resolved.  We wanted the revolutionary war, and the civil war, and the great depression and World War II, as these let us put the country together and formed the next high.

We want this crisis, and we're going to get it no matter what it takes.  We'll accept any form the crisis could take if necessary, but fault lines in society result in us being pulled towards particular potential crises.

Republicans are pulled towards one sort of crisis conflict, Democrats towards another, and neither has anything to do with money or good opportunity.

Wishing for things doesn't make them so.  Russia meddled in our election and they are doing the same thing all over Europe.  How that plays out will determine whether we have a huge international issue or not.  Meanwhile, the DPRK is murdering people in public and not inside North Korea.  Finally, the Chinese are getting pissed off about it.  I doubt we'll do anything in Asia that might distract them from that task.

I have no idea how all this will play out, but triggering a war seems the least likely outcome.  Rising tensions, on the other hand, are pretty much baked in.