The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(04-22-2020, 12:40 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-22-2020, 10:55 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I would suggest the red are closer to nature, the blue more civilized.  They represent different places in man’s cultural evolution.  The red are not the beginning, are well civilized.  The blue have not reached the end point, are moving on continuously.  If both could leave each other alone and not see one as superior to the other, we might be better off.  Unfortunately the federal government likes one size to fit all, and the two wind up bumping heads.

I'd agree that the blues are much more domesticated and needier  than the reds are these days. I wouldn't say the blues are more civilized than the reds at this point. I'd say the reds are actually more civilized as a group than the blues at this point. I agree that the blues would be better off leaving them alone instead of alienating them the way that they do all the time. So far, I haven't seen one size fits all mentality prevail over the American based to each their own mentality. Unfortunately, a portion of the federal government is still clinging to a one size fits all philosophy.

The Red-Blue divide depends upon the Right telling the Reds that middle-class Blues are oppressors and that the distant, rapacious elites that the Blues never meet are benefactors in the struggle against exploitation and humiliation. The right-wing rhetoric is a game of deflection.