For well over a century, the GOP has been pro-business, while the Demos were pro-labor. But both parties were “big tent” parties and were often more united than divided. Many prominent Republicans in the 1960’s, 70’s — heck, even Pres. candidates as recent as Dole or Romney! — were intelligent moderates.
You’ll get different answers about the timing of the fall to perdition. Ronald Reagan will get strong mention, but he was almost an intelligent humanitarian “RINO” compared with today’s ilk.
How are two parties aligned? Labor vs Business? Whites vs Colored? Religious vs Satan’s spawn? Because of high mobility and the self-selected nature of today’s media, we have a new model for party division: These days, people pick a party based on their cognition modality. People who think with their temporal cerebral lobe gravitate to the Democratic Party. People whose cognition is dominated by a hyperactive amygdala (the brain center for the emotions of fear and disgust) gravitate to the Republican Party.
This sad conclusion has been confirmed by a variety of scientific studies, and explains today’s partisan gulf. In the old “big tent” days, I could chat with a cousin from the other party and easily achieve understanding and compromise. Today the cognitive gap is too wide. People from one party know the other-party guy is speaking English sentences but the meanings of the sentences are drowned in emotion and completely lost.
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The destruction of healthcare. Weakening of education. Denial of climate change. Illegitimate wars. Gerrymandering. Voter suppression. Useless weapons programs. Reproductive repression. Constituent avoidance. Incompetent, malevolent cabinets. Entrenched racism. Failed drug policies. Regressive taxation. Anti-feminism. Failures of church-state separation.
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Where do you get your news, D’Anconia ? Do you find all you need to know at Washington Times? When you’re sincerely curious about Hillary, what is the Search term you type into Google? Perhaps: “I think Hillary is a disgusting despicable murderer, tell me I’m right!” ?
And the last sentence in that excerpt is self-parody. I’ll let Chronos explain why.