The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-27-2020, 12:08 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: For what it's worth, I've never viewed us as being all that far apart domestic policy wise. We differed greatly on foreign policy and global policy. I don't have an attachment to a political party/term or an attachment to a particular side of an old forum or a group here either at this point. Like I side, the Democratic party completely turned me (lost my support) off long ago. So, I tend to vote Republican these days. I'm pro American worker, pro American family, pro American rights and pro American overall. I guess that what makes me more in line with the Tea Party today. I'm not so much dreaming it, I'm seeing it's influence with Republicans these days.

One problem is that your view on things like policy oversimplifies, and you are inclined to demonize those who do not oversimplify the same way. That makes you an easy target. My approach assumes everybody has their own well justified perspective, and the view of the situation is not complete until you have included all the perspectives. (And that does not even count angles like astrology, which are not justified, but some people view it as if they were valid.)

Problems like the Middle East and the Republicans are not simple or limited to a few things. I mean, the economic way of looking at things from the middle of the country is fine, but you have to be aware that the Middle East is switching from Agricultural Age values to modern and that is always ugly. The Republican Party has been infected with racism, elites allegiance and loyalty to specific groups. You cannot just ignore these for an economic view.

From my perspective, much jumping around between ways of looking at the world is required. Bringing it back to one approach is just incomplete.