That's the thing, it looks as though they're getting ready to swing left.
The business types are not really good with the unions, simply because they happen to be natural enemies. They are also very conscious of their public image. As far as climate change, that's more them trying to tap a new market. Wokeness is another matter, in that they're trying to tap into that business market and harness the labor force and demographics seem to be going towards a more ethnically diverse America. They want to be on the right side of where the money is. China I'll get back to.
The Republicans are going populist. So what will happen now is either there will be a split in the business vote or they'll shift over to the Democrats. Which means they're going to have a nasty fight with the Greens and the Socialists. The Socialists are by all appearances, on the way out. They did NOT impress their political allies with their uncontrolled riots and demonstrations over the summer. It's one thing for the Democrats to harness a riot for their own ends, but it's another for the most radical elements of the party to drag it as far as they possibly can before the Democrats are FORCED to disown them. Pelosi probably feels burned after the slack she gave Antifa. And that led to them losing seats that they shouldn't have lost.
The Greens are from what I hear however, still strong and growing in power. But with one of their allied blocs having disgraced themselves and proven themselves just as dangerous to the Democrats as to the Republicans, Pelosi and her ilk are instead going to try and focus on bringing in the business and national security voters. That's why so many RHINOs showed up at the DNC this past year. With few exceptions, almost the entire business community has turned its back on Trump and are hoping to embrace the Democrats, because they don't want to be swing voters. They need institutional power for the sake of their businesses.
So people like Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, and Harris are staring down a coming civil war between the more moderate Democrats, their incoming business allies...and the most energized and radical wing of the party. Those demonstrations against Biden are real and they are purely the intent of the socialists to make it known that they are NOT happy about what is happening. The Democrats are not in a position to reshape the judicial branch or the balance of the EC or anything else.
Rather, they're going to struggle to maintain their unity in the face of their internal divisions. Because all they ever agreed upon in the past four years was that they hated Donald J. Trump with the passion of a thousand suns. And now that he is gone--what do they agree upon? The Green New Deal? No. The socialists aren't even just demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour; they want UBI. Military engagement? The SJWs think that's white imperalism and they're wholly against the idea of accepting that it's the United States's sheer power that has maintained the most peaceful era of human existence. Against a business and national security voting bloc that views these as not just the continuation of their own personal power--but as anything short of a global network as sheer insanity that threatens to plunge the world into a second dark age?
There is no unity there. It's an illusion spurred on by the past 4 years. Fed by years of the SJWs believing themselves to be the natural leaders within a party that believes itself to be the natural ruling party of the Union. Despite the fact that they've held Congress for 1/3rd the times as the Republicans, despite having over 40% more members.
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You take the good with the bad.
Trump had charisma, determination, and the resources to back up his initial claim to office. He rode in on a wave of dissatisfaction with the system. And in the end, Trump broke that system. It is so broken that it cannot be repaired in the wake of all that has happened. The pandemic showed the whole world how very little we actually trust each other. The geo-economic struggle that had been ongoing for the past few decades has finally boiled to the surface and broken the lid that the US kept on the world.
You may not have noticed, but the Democrats have actually adopted some of Trump's talking points now. Strong borders to prevent the Wuhan from infecting the country. Regardless of what Biden said when it started, he's changed his tune. Not because he wants to look good, but because he knows (or has been advised) that this is the general feeling. Gun control? Regardless of what Biden said, this past summer new gun ownerships skyrocketed in the wake of the riots--and a good deal of them were liberals. You can expect any gun laws to fail to make it through Congress and any that does will not be well received from gun toting Democrats who know their own mayors and governors will turn a blind eye to riots.
Speaking of riots. The Democrats have now embraced guns and walls as a means of protecting the elite and the capital. Oops.
And trade? The Democrats went from screaming about how xenophobic Trump's trade wars are to talking about "Make American, Buy American". Biden's plan is not to just buy American, but to invest in markets where Americans aren't even competing at the moment. His stance against China is going to be as bad as Trump's from the Chinese perspective.
There is no going back. It's too late for that now. The tech companies are going to be neutered by both parties, who had good reason to neuter them BEFORE they started mass banning and deplatforming Republicans. And far leftists are about to get theirs too, in case you're wondering. Because those crazy greens and socialists? Not good friends of the business communities. The pandemic has made people paranoid about trusting China to deliver goods and services. Instead of uniting the world against a common threat as globalists envisioned, it has instead turned into a case of "everyman for himself". Germany and the EU are right now facing the fact that their own vaccines are second-rate compared to American vaccines and they're even angrier that the Americans are fully intent on curing themselves first--and everyone else last.
That and we're likely to charge them through the nose to get it.
