Thank you for articulating one of the things I've been saying the longest, which is that statistically EVERYONE in the USA, with exceptions too few to bother with, lives the way everyone assumes the Republican party wants them to.
Nobody anywhere *wants* his son to be a homosexual; no one wants his daughter to be promiscuous and abort her children. Nobody wants his money stolen and wasted on trains to nowhere, foreign money laundering, or bums that won't work. Everyone wants to be left alone in his religious beliefs, be they Roman Catholicism or stupid tree and planet worship. Everyone wants the crime in HIS neighborhood vigorously prosecuted.
The people who vote for the most part -- until recently, anyway -- disagreed about the best ways of achieving good results. With one party actively swinging a wrecking ball at everything in range, it's time to make common cause with those who voted for that party who can be persuaded.
That said, the compromise you think is necessary might not be. Somebody ought to drive this point home during a campaign, and instead of playing on the stupidity and gullibility of guilty white liberals and resentful minorities, use this "dirty little secret" to get people to think differently about their own interests.
Thank you for articulating one of the things I've been saying the longest, which is that statistically EVERYONE in the USA, with exceptions too few to bother with, lives the way everyone assumes the Republican party wants them to.
Nobody anywhere *wants* his son to be a homosexual; no one wants his daughter to be promiscuous and abort her children. Nobody wants his money stolen and wasted on trains to nowhere, foreign money laundering, or bums that won't work. Everyone wants to be left alone in his religious beliefs, be they Roman Catholicism or stupid tree and planet worship. Everyone wants the crime in HIS neighborhood vigorously prosecuted.
The people who vote for the most part -- until recently, anyway -- disagreed about the best ways of achieving good results. With one party actively swinging a wrecking ball at everything in range, it's time to make common cause with those who voted for that party who can be persuaded.
That said, the compromise you think is necessary might not be. Somebody ought to drive this point home during a campaign, and instead of playing on the stupidity and gullibility of guilty white liberals and resentful minorities, use this "dirty little secret" to get people to think differently about their own interests.