Olive branchy? The Dems have come right out attacking the left. (As it so happens, the first shots are from a "moderate" Dem formerly of the CIA.)
I would not rate one's "own intelligence agencies" as a superior source of authority in political matters; their participation in politics at all is not a sign of health.
Like it or not, conservatives are partners in governance, and the Dems could end up a minority in the Senate.
The bigger picture is one of imperial decline, with direct challenges in the next decade where the US is unlikely to retain military hegemony in Asia-Pacific and central Asia, with former allies possibly splitting off into new coalitions. All within increasing climate change driven stressors of extreme weather, water/food shortages, mass migrations of refugees, and perhaps ireversible warming that conservative institutions (military and finance) have decided ae locked in at +3-4 degrees Celsius.
It would be interesting to hear ex/evangelical takes on America in the world from this standpoint and not just the -isms that appear to menace domestic politics with cruelties that pale in comparison to those the US projects outward to the world as a matter of bipartisan militarism and consumer greed.
Biden in particular is emphasizing unity. McConnell's refusal to acknowledge Biden's decisive electoral victory is proof they are not interested in such unity. Also, I was referring to the way Trump sided with Putin over US government intelligence reports that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812
Yeah...the republicans will never want unity, but as long as the democrats have a "centrist" leadership based on moving a little to the left of the republicans, they're going to see their own left-wing as the biggest threat to the old Clinton strategy of eking out very narrow victories rather than going back to being the populist, working class party. So we're likely to see the republicans get more and more of those votes, pushing a national conservative agenda, and it may get very dangerous for progressives.
The Russia stuff is all pretty nuts. Russia didn't meaningfully interfere beyond the usual propaganda lots of countries do to each other. Russian intelligence has an open, non-secret, and defined policy of specific escalations in ideological warfare based on US/NATO triggers, and they've followed it. I wonder how conservative Evangelicals have processed it, and how they regard Russia, China, and US allies.
Olive branchy? The Dems have come right out attacking the left. (As it so happens, the first shots are from a "moderate" Dem formerly of the CIA.)
I would not rate one's "own intelligence agencies" as a superior source of authority in political matters; their participation in politics at all is not a sign of health.
Like it or not, conservatives are partners in governance, and the Dems could end up a minority in the Senate.
The bigger picture is one of imperial decline, with direct challenges in the next decade where the US is unlikely to retain military hegemony in Asia-Pacific and central Asia, with former allies possibly splitting off into new coalitions. All within increasing climate change driven stressors of extreme weather, water/food shortages, mass migrations of refugees, and perhaps ireversible warming that conservative institutions (military and finance) have decided ae locked in at +3-4 degrees Celsius.
It would be interesting to hear ex/evangelical takes on America in the world from this standpoint and not just the -isms that appear to menace domestic politics with cruelties that pale in comparison to those the US projects outward to the world as a matter of bipartisan militarism and consumer greed.
Biden in particular is emphasizing unity. McConnell's refusal to acknowledge Biden's decisive electoral victory is proof they are not interested in such unity. Also, I was referring to the way Trump sided with Putin over US government intelligence reports that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812
Yeah...the republicans will never want unity, but as long as the democrats have a "centrist" leadership based on moving a little to the left of the republicans, they're going to see their own left-wing as the biggest threat to the old Clinton strategy of eking out very narrow victories rather than going back to being the populist, working class party. So we're likely to see the republicans get more and more of those votes, pushing a national conservative agenda, and it may get very dangerous for progressives.
The Russia stuff is all pretty nuts. Russia didn't meaningfully interfere beyond the usual propaganda lots of countries do to each other. Russian intelligence has an open, non-secret, and defined policy of specific escalations in ideological warfare based on US/NATO triggers, and they've followed it. I wonder how conservative Evangelicals have processed it, and how they regard Russia, China, and US allies.