The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Classic-Xer]

(01-13-2021, 01:29 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-13-2021, 01:12 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: There was a lot of violence across the entire country that the Democrats supported by doing little to nothing about it, saying little to nothing about it  and allowing it to continue for several months that culminated with what we saw last week. EYES DO NOT LIE DAVE AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOW THE ONES POSITIONED TO LOOSE CONTROL OVER AN ENTIRE COUNTRY. YOUR NOT THINKING DAVE. THE WOMEN IN CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AREN'T THINKING DAVE. THE WOMEN SUPPORTING THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP AREN'T THINKING DAVE. ALL THE WOMEN ARE DOING IS BRINGING THE COUNTRY CLOSER TO YEARS OF CIVIL UNREST AND ALL OUT CIVIL WAR RIGHT NOW. When its all said and done, the Democratic party will be a train wreck. Is that what you want?

The difference is that they are thinking differently.  Reds are best understood in abstract through tribal thinking.  Divide between us and them, develop a healthy xenophobia about them, and use violence to assure superiority over them.  Blues are WEIRDer.  They care about principles such as democracy, equality, human rights and rule of law.  It is an entirely different way of approaching things.  I don’t feel confident that people seeking different goals will understand how the other is thinking.

In the crisis heart you usually find a focused efficient government.  I know this is not how reds usually view Democrats, but it seems the direction Biden is heading in.  We will see how he does, how well law and order does against those who think tribally.

Once again, if you weren't so into tribal thinking and associated with a tribe and guilty of thinking in terms of us and them and being divisive, you'd have some integrity/credibility to fall back on at this point. The WEIRD might (I say might) care about values such as democracy, equality, human rights and the rule of law as they pertain to themselves and their tribe. Are the WEIRD in trouble for ignoring existing laws that equally pertain to them and crossing American boundaries that rational/sane people would never cross and placing themselves at risk being stripped of all protections right now? As I mentioned before, I'm not a member of the GOP tribe. I'm a member of the American tribe that's well over 5 times their size that tends to support them these days.