The common theme of all righties is their brainwashing, a belief in an alternative reality, one created for them by right wing media.
That, not conservatives policies, is what unifies the right, a shared belief in alternative facts. This holds true for the richest right wingers and the poorest and for the smartest all the way to the dumbest.
^This. It was way, way better with both sides seeing the very same things, but having different approaches - an being able to compromise to an acceptable degree.
I started out on the other side. I liked the idea of a smaller federal government, because I wanted to keep more money in the my state, and I wanted my state to solve some problems on its own - and we did accomplish that in some areas (better HHS programs with better funding, for example). But it took democratic governors to accomplish that. And many republican agenda items were built on lies and deception. Now, just about all of it is either a grift or a lie - and compromise is weakness. Small government turned out to be code for cutting taxes on the wealthy and large corporations and throwing throwing some small cuts to the average family as a twisted sales pitch. It is so sad.
Many on the right purposely carved out a bizarre coalition designed to keep some clever power brokers flush with cash, but it also allows too many absolute morons to get elected to office. And it’s becoming creating a cesspool of hatred based politics, and that’s causing many democrats to respond with anger given there is no logical way to converse with many on the right. We often can’t even agree to disagree. This is just making things worse and I don’t know how the system gets back to basic solid government, reasonable compromise and a tamping down emotion in the increasingly Balkanized major parties. The rich and powerful are just too invested in preserving the chaos so that they can exploit it to increase their wealth and power across there globalized empires.
That't my 2 cents.
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