Thanks for your reply. I was blunt only to get to the heart of the issue.
I won't take back my viewpoint that some that may post here are left leaning and delight in the schism. But to heck with that, let's discuss this so we are not all here after elections moaning because the democrats won due to our divide.
I like Rand Paul too. It is a cluster. But his backing McConnell over the tea party guy (that is BTW winning or tied,) of possibly no fault of his own, turns this into a three ring circus. Thanks for your reply about us all having the same goal. I think we do.
I tend to differ with both of those
boldface points above. I actually don't believe (maybe I am naive??) that anyone posting regularly here actually is "left leaning." I believe that rather than leaning left, they
lean party. And to a certain extent, I can understand this bent. In fact, I too
leaned party for most of my adult life. Being far less informed about the core truths of these matters, I voted without applying very much critical thought. I had been raised with a belief that the Republican Party, in virtually every case, would field the better candidate in an election. So it was fairly easy for me, I would simply support, fund, and vote for the Republican Candidate (and yes, life was far simpler in those days!! on a number of fronts!! lol)
Now before any gets up in arms about any implication that people that still tend to
lean party are ignorant or somehow misinformed. Well, some of them are, but I am not really speaking about them, I am describing what I see from some of the posters here. I believe that they are as well informed (or not) as anyone else here. However, I think that the key difference comes down to a matter of
acceptance. Some of us have accepted the fact (as difficult as it is (and I am not messing around in this post -- at times I have felt a deep agony and intense pain in my life during the process of coming to accept the present realities)) that we (meaning We, the People) don't really have a team on the field any longer. As sad as that sounds, with far too few exceptions, the "Republicans" that we have on the national stage as just as much big government statists as the Democrats. I believe that the true divide is between the "Ruling Class" (of 'both' parties) and the "Country Class" as described in Angelo Codevilla's
AMERICA’S RULING CLASS — AND THE PERILS OF REVOLUTION Spectator article of a few years ago.
This is a very difficult to fully accept and embrace. We tend to avoid (it is our nature as humans) acceptance of painful truths for as long as we can. For whatever reasons, some of us have come to this acceptance already, and some still wish to resist it. I believe that a great deal of the "arguments" that take place in many of these threads amongst our population of like-minded individuals, can be explained by the different levels of acceptance. (And of course, everyone is free to "accept" my view, or not!! lol)
Oh, and as to your second point in the above, that some "delight in the schism." I actually don't really believe that it is the schism that some find "delightful," rather it is merely the opportunity to argue and contest that many enjoy. (Again, just my opinion, take it for what it is worth....)