A new president only has a brief period of time. Think 2&1/2 years........ We Live in a results now world. Markets swing wildly with change. Any "reset" is going to be painful for this reason alone. And that pain will reflect in the next election. Long story short a president responsible for any reset isn't going to be around long enough to see if through.
Many of the more nonsensical declarations of That’s Racist! society has been subjected to over the past 5 years have been more about moving the goalposts/window.
You are missing my point entirely. The president only has control over certain things- chiefly, his own branch. He has influence over his party, but not always control.
I think part of the issue from both sides is the tendency to believe that the radical fringe represents the whole.
This is what I am getting at with my culture war posts. You have people on the right reacting to a fraction of people on the left that think a jeans ad is racist. They're no better than the noisy people on the other side.
Maybe I'm just being cynical but do you believe what I "think" you're stating here is actually possible? By this I mean we're a country of some 350m with 50 different states that are themselves expressly allowed a degree of self-governance. There's a degree of herding cats involved here. At it's base premise I (actually I think a large number of people) would agree with a "change starts at home" take but there are a lot of homes that differ greatly from one another spread across the country and even the idea of what "healing" would even mean would be vehemently debated.
I just don't think the numbers are such a big problem. The desire to force the other side to do what you want across the whole country is the problem. We had those arguments 250 years ago and our founders came up with a fine solution that applies everywhere from a town and county level (i.e., parts of the county self-governing and representing themselves) all the way to a national level. It's scalable. Provably so.
People really love that term. Or fascist. It’s so overused, like many other “ist” words or “phobic” words, it loses its meaning or relevance when in it actually occurs . The vast majority of people in this country DGAS about jeans commercials or the color of the person they’re working next to at the office . They just want to provide for their families and live a secure life. If you go on tiktok it’s overwhelming these loser girls with their septum rings complaining about the pretty girl in the ad and manufacturing some outrage bc maybe this is just another indicator that they aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy . Who would have ever thought that the movie PCU, made in satire, would almost seem tame 30 years later?
The divide was basically north and south, then the West that was still a frontier.
I have friends that live in Washington State, Family that lives in California. I've been to every other region in the past three years save the Northeast but I know some people there too.
I won't disagree with much of the sentiment in the 2nd paragraph but still maintain we have some truly overt differences now and the idea of "scalable" is having issues. We have something like 15 individual urban areas that themselves are more populous than the entire country at the founding. Those living in population areas of 2500 or more went from 5.1% in 1790 to 35.1 in 1890. The last census has urban population at 80%. The dynamics of that are different.
