Posted on 03/29/2020 3:40:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Obviously, we are a very badly divided nation: so divided we agree on virtually nothing; so divided we can't even talk to one another anymore; so divided one side doesn't believe in anything the other side says; so divided California, New York and Illinois might as well be on a different planet than Texas.
We can't even agree on how to respond to the novel coronavirus, and when to get back to business.
Check out the latest Rasmussen poll. Sixty-one percent of Republicans believe America will rise from the dead by Easter. Count me among them.
But only 41% of all likely voters somewhat believe the USA can get back to work by Easter. Among Democrats, the number must be in the teens.
In the past few days, President Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans need to get back to work.
I have said repeatedly on my nationally syndicated radio show: "The business of America is business. It's time to get back to work because the deadly virus is temporary, but the economic disaster we're causing could last a lifetime and prove far more deadly in the long run."
Many conservatives such as myself have also pointed out that the mortality rates of the coronavirus have been greatly exaggerated. On Thursday, Dr. Deborah Birx, "America's Doctor," said the same thing in a press conference: There will not be millions dead in the USA. The math doesn't add up.
She reported how computer models predicting 500,000 dead in the U.K. have been downgraded to 20,000. She reported how the terrible death count in Italy just doesn't add up to millions of Americans dead, not even close.
President Trump and Republican businessmen like me remain steadfast and optimistic that we can start bringing this terrible pandemic to a close and be back to business (or at least a limited business rollout) by Easter.
It's not because we don't take this pandemic seriously but because we believe in our hearts that we can't allow the U.S. economy to die. We can't allow another Great Depression. We can't honor the sick or dying by losing our job, income and life savings.
Someone has to mind the store, keep the economy going, pay the bills and pay the taxes so that after we win this war -- and we will win -- there is something for the older, the weak and the vulnerable to come back to.
We believe in our hearts and souls there is a way to restart this economy and to do it carefully, reasonably and responsibly while protecting the oldest, weakest and most vulnerable.
Meanwhile, Democratic politicians and liberal Hollywood activists scream about millions dying and about keeping the nation locked down for months. And they call Trump and Republicans all kinds of terrible names.
What accounts for this difference? I believe I've figured it out. It's all about personality.
Most every Republican I know is positive, outgoing and relentless, won't take no for an answer and has can-do spirit. That's why so many Republicans are successful in the business world. That's why we're proud to create the jobs and pay the taxes. We are the workers, makers and producers of America. We turn lemons into lemonade. We see the glass as half full, not half empty. We love working. We see it as our American way of life. We desperately want and need to get back to work.
Democrats are the polar opposite. They are cynical, negative and always finding fault with America, capitalism and business. That's why conservative talk radio is so successful whereas there is virtually no liberal talk radio. It's just too negative, too dark, too depressing. Liberals are always complaining, offering no solutions other than bigger government.
That explains the differences in how we see the coronavirus. Republicans have everything to lose if they don't get back to work. We see our business, career, job as our calling in life, our baby. It is who we are. Taking that away from us is like death.
Democrats are made up of groups who don't see anything to gain by rushing back to work. Some of them didn't work before this crisis. Some are protected by union contracts and union pensions. Some work for the government -- and they have jobs for life. Some have lived on a welfare check for much of their life. Some want to be paid bigger checks for being unemployed than for working. In the end, they feel they can stay home, take no risk and have the government pay them.
It's a completely different mindset. Democrats depend on government. Republicans depend on God, prayer, self-reliance and personal responsibility. Our lives are wrapped up in our work. We're risk-takers. We must get back to work or risk losing everything we've worked our whole lives to build. It's what makes us who we are.
Yes, we're a divided nation. It's like we're from different planets. I'm proud to be from the planet where the glass is always half full, where America, with the greatest health care system in the world and the strongest economy in the world, will always prove victorious.
Yes, it's true that "the business of America is business." Let the people who want to get back to it get back to it.
It is NOT about personality. It is about SATAN. Democrats belong to him. They are vile.
Especially those in Congress
I could not agree with you more! It is saddening to see our country brought to its knees by hype and hysteria. I do not deny that there is an epidemic, yet no one who is honest expects this to be of an order of magnitude which requires turning Americans into serfs and slaves. That is what is being done to us and I am disappointed to see so few of us who are willing to scream “bloody murder” at the confiscation of the few liberties we have left. Will we need to revise the National Anthem by deleting “in the land of the free and the home of the brave” and replace it with “in the land of ignorant and cowardly slaves”?
Yes, good column.
At the moment, a large portion of the American elite, seem wedded to the idea this is a huge money-making opportunity.
That large portion of the American elite, seem dedicated to ... making a huge amount of money. Apparently, that money, is motivating them more than saving American lives, or getting Americans back to work.
You see, there is a combination of well-established drugs, which are hugely produced, in a number of countries, which appear to work against COVID-19.
For about $5 / pill.
They have been produced, out of patent protection since before the 1950’s.
Yet, nobody has done a thing, yet.
Waiting...
Meanwhile, 19,452 more Americans were infected.
Just yesterday.
Many, are not yet able to take the drug.
Not only does it depend on having a physician willing to prescribe the drugs...
Some state governors, have made it illegal.
Because WuFlu shows how much single payer sucks.
Nope. It's all about HATE.
The demonRATs HATE Trump and his supporters beyond rage, beyond logic, beyond any human bounds.
When a person is blinded by hateful rage, that sole emotion drives their every thought and every action.
Anyone that has tried to have a logical political discussion with a demonRAT knows that it is not possible.
At the first sign that they may be losing the discussion, vile, filthy screams will begin and never let up.
It is the reason I refer to them as demonRATS, because they are possessed by the devil.
Their souls belong to SATAN.
There were 1300 deaths caused by the flu on December 13. No screaming headlines required. Normal stuff, nothing to see, carry on. An election year changes everything. The snowflakes show up with their usual grab bag full of whines, bitches and complaints - only turbocharged. What I’ve noticed is they aren’t looking for any solution to the problem other then electing Gropin’ Joe who is hiding in his basement bunker. That should fix everything.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/health/flu-update-cdc-dec-13-2019/index.html
And that way is?
I tend to agree with you.
Someone I am very close to, is so anti-Trump, she has stopped saying she loves me.
Because I support Trump.
That is just wrong... I still love her, say that every time I write, but she seems to think politics is more important than love.
It is not.
He’s exactly right. The two sides in this country agree on virtually nothing. We have a 50-state entity, but we no longer have a nation. Sometime, relatively soon, it will be necessary to have a discussion on how to beat split this country along ideological lines.
This experience is going to be great for my business in the future, I will be able to have remote workers using efficient systems and be able to reach and serve a larger community. The learning curve is wonderful.
Emotional thinking vs. Logical thinking.
The author has identified the essential difference between leftists and conservatives. Put another way, conservatives fear God and leftists would be God.
The ineffable reality of faith is that it performs contrary to leftist expectations about believers, it does not put them in chains, it liberates them. The other side of the coin, hubris, the drive to play God enervates the individual, sucks him into the collective, and ultimately destroys him. Finally, it enslaves all those about him whom it does not destroy.
Emotional thinkers tend to think in terms of black or white and don’t consider the gray alternatives.
A Republican could come up with a miracle cure and Democrats would find fault with it.
A Democrat could come up with a miracle cure and Republicans would find fault with it.
A Democrat could make a fool of himself on the issue and Democrats would not only defend him but also subscribe to that folly.
A Republican could make a fool of himself on the issue and Republicans would not only defend him but subscribe to that folly.
The whole thing is messed up because of the level of politicization it has received, and the outcome of that is whether the thing is a ‘hoax’ or it is ‘apocalypse’ the fact is the response given by the nation will not be the most optimal response.
A united America can do anything it puts its mind to, be it putting human feet on lunar soil, creating miracle medicines that stopped diseases that used to kill millions decades ago, create the strongest economy in the World’s history, split an atom, break a code, brings back astronauts in a troubled spacecraft by jury rigging assorted parts ...you name it, you guys can do it!
Problem is America is divided, and BOTH sides need to get their heads out of their asses and fix things. Once things are back to normal people can go back to acting the fool. Both sides.
Because the republicans at least have a plan and are executing it the rats have nothing
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