After so much divisiveness from the democrats attacking Trump and Trump voters and supporters, do democrats really think one of their terrible candidates can unite the country?
I don't see it. The social and political differences seem to be so enormous that how is a democrat going to make republicans happy? The democrats have screamed all type of accusations against democrats for voting and supporting Trump and now one of their candidates who have policies totally opposite of the republicans and I don't see that changing.
I applaud your concern regarding our divided nature. But in your view it is only the Democrats who have sowed divisiveness. And you claim it is only Democrats who have screamed accusations.
If you assume that Republicans have done nothing to increase our divisions, it will be impossible for our divisions to heal--regardless who wins the 2020 election.
I suggest that America is torn over class inequities and the argument over how to move forward as a society. Folks who are angry exist in both parties.
Take for example Republican talk of taking away key social benefits from the majority because they aren't "entitled" to these benefits.
Do you think this position might bring us closer together? Or would it generate further anger? I am not a socialist, however, after having worked for more than 45 years,
and paying into our federal retirement programs, I will be among the tens of millions of Americans who take to the ramparts to defend
our worker social programs. Under Trump the GOP tax giveaway enriched America's wealthiest and allowed our most profitable corporate giants to pay lower taxes than middle class folks.
Was this fair? Or are we no longer a nation of fairness? How can we justify mammoth increases to our military spending while considering cuts to the social programs most
Americans rely on in their old age? What kind of society does that?
Answer: A society that cares only to maintain the security and improve the control of the most powerful and wealthy at the expense of the majority. THAT is NOT democracy!
The reality of class warfare has given rise to American populism--on both the Right and the Left.
We are seeing two divergent forms of populism: Trumpism which is driven by lies and deception and divisiveness vs. the anti-wealth, anti-corporate sentiment tapped by Bernie Sanders.
It's just a matter of time before the majority of voters support attacking America's most onerous "entitlement" programs--the tax code and investing laws designed to benefit
the wealthiest in our society. Our current tax structure assures wealthier folks enjoy generation of lower-taxed dividends, sheltered investment growth, ability to pass on gifts to enrich
their offspring, while they generally ignore the plight of the average W-2 wage earner.
If the top 1% keep pushing the majority down through unbridled greed so that they must grovel for the crumbs left by those who own everything we will lose our democracy.