envirozentinel wrote:
Is this divided America of June 2020 really what the MAGAs wanted?
From the outside, looking in, The only "dividing" I have seen has actually come from the other side:
My understanding was that Mr Trump's goal was to make "America" great again, indicating a focus inward to help the citizens of the country rather than focussing outward as "world police". In this, he appears to have only been seeking to divide those who "owed alligience" to the country (citizens) from those who were seeking a free ride at the expence of his country.
On the other side of the political spectrum, there had been a continued "tantrum" (I can't think of another word to describe the continued efforts to try and derail any action being taken to actually fulfill the election "promises" which had been made, or to try and remove the President from office) over the fact that the person they expected to win had not won, and so at every chance they had been seeking to prevent any action that would benefit the citizens of the country.
Prior to the pandemic and riots, as far as I understand things, the economy was actually going quite well, with unemployment down to 3.7% last year, at which time they would have seen the country as becoming "great" - less unemployed leads to higher wages needing to be offered in order to obtain or retain staff, as well as less "welfare" needing to be paid, meaning this money can be invested elsewhere in the community.
Asking a question such as you have, when an external factor (pandemic) and internal factor (result of the opposition's continued efforts to stoke division between communities) have come together to reverse much (most?) of the gains of the previous years would seem somewhat disingenious...
On a side note, I am curious how the protests and riots are distributed in the country: Is there any resource indicating what number\percentage of "Democrat" controlled areas are experiencing the division and riots compared to "Republican" controlled areas (in terms of mayors/governors), as it would be interesting to see how this division is distributed\focussed...After all, if the Republicans have been stoking division such as has been implied here, you would expect to see the riots taking place in predominantly Republican areas, and similarly, if the Democrats were seen as the ones making a group feel divided/downtrodden, then no doubt the areas under their control would be more likely to feel the backlash should the downtrodden rise up - I can't think of any reason a group would riot against their friends or supporters.