No Republicans there will even understand the point your trying to make, or at best they will think you are foolish. After 40 years of demonization of political opponents, it's all about "with us or against us."
No Republicans there will even understand the point your trying to make, or at best they will think you are foolish. After 40 years of demonization of political opponents, it's all about "with us or against us."
This isn't a uniquely Republican point of view, nor is it as prevalent among the Republican voter base as you imply.
Have you lived up north recently? Specifically the so-called "tech hubs" are filled with vile and judgemental people who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of groupthink and monoculture.
However, when it comes to rural areas, areas that don't even have leftists but may have a few liberals, my experience is that the anti-lib stance is the overriding view, along with being pro-gun, pro-God (at least in theory), and pro-fossil fuel. It's a cultural war more than a political war, in-tribe versus out-of-tribe. For Democrats, the culture war does not extend to swapping values on the national stage depending on who is in power, it only seems to be loca control of housing.
> vile and judgemental people who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of groupthink and monoculture
Just start quoting Jordan Peterson and save us the implications and dancing around your point.
There's also a significant number of leftists who feel the same way about liberals, though this is a tiny chunk of them that speaks far louder than their numbers are, and who do not hold power in proportion to their loudness.
Let's stop with this false equivalency.
One party has done everything in its power to gerrymander, discredit the electoral process, and put lobbyists in power. One party has consistently appealed to racism. One party has appealed to discrediting the value of effective government.
The Road Rage Party ... has seemed an appropriate way to describe the GOP in recent years.
> in its power to gerrymander
Republicans (I doubt anyone will complain about this one)
> discredit the electoral process
Primarily Democrats (National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, concern over mail-in voting prior to 2015, renewed concern over the past month or so), with some Republican (concern over mail-in ballots over the past half-year or so)
> put lobbyists in power
Honestly not paying much attention here
> One party has consistently appealed to racism
Democrats (probably the most prominent recent thing being Biden's "you ain't black", but there's plenty more)
> One party has appealed to discrediting the value of effective government
Not sure about the "appealed to", but between impeachment with no evidence and The Squad, I have to give this one to Democrats as well.
Listen to leftists, and they will be pointing out these cases, because the Democratic leadership and power structure is consistent in support of militarism, whether or not the Democrats are in power, and leftists give them hell for it.
Can you find diversity of opinion within political parties? Of course. But pointing to diversity of opinion is a hugely different thing than the leadership of parties swapping positions I'm supposed ideals like "fiscally conservative" depending on whether or not they are doing the spending.