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Do you agree this explains the country's divide in politics well?

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Democrats in the end speak most of, and seem to hold the most sympathy for, the beset-upon single mother without medical coverage for her children, and the soldier back from the war who needs more help with post-traumatic stress disorder. They express the most sympathy for the needy, the yearning, the marginalized and unwell. For those, in short, who need more help from the government, meaning from the government's treasury, meaning the money got from taxpayers.

Who happen, also, to be a generally beset-upon group.

Democrats show little expressed sympathy for those who work to make the money the government taxes to help the beset-upon mother and the soldier and the kids. They express little sympathy for the middle-aged woman who owns a small dry cleaner and employs six people and is, actually, day to day, stressed and depressed from the burden of state, local and federal taxes, and regulations, and lawsuits, and meetings with the accountant, and complaints as to insufficient or incorrect efforts to meet guidelines regarding various employee/employer rules and regulations. At Republican conventions they express sympathy for this woman, as they do for those who are entrepreneurial, who start businesses and create jobs and build things. Republicans have, that is, sympathy for taxpayers. But they don't dwell all that much, or show much expressed sympathy for, the sick mother with the uninsured kids, and the soldier with the shot nerves.

Neither party ever gets it quite right, the balance between the taxed and the needy, the suffering of one sort and the suffering of another. You might say that in this both parties are equally cold and equally warm, only to two different classes of citizens.

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  1. I think you make some excellent points - neither party wants the truly needy to die in our streets. Neither party wants to tax businesses into bankruptcy or promote outsourcing.

    The Democrats and Republicans generally find some middle ground and we do alright. However, when the pendulum swings too far in either direction, we get into trouble.

    A lot of the concerns presently facing this nation don't seem to have a middle ground - the war in Iraq, same s*x marriage, abortion, etc - and there in lies the present wide divide. No one wants to compromise their core beliefs, and there's really no compromise to abortion, for instance - either it's pro life or it's pro choice.


  2. Conservatives hold to an ideal that when attempted, results in a fallout of benefits to one and all.  Liberals represent the ever-constant sliding away from that ideal, delegating personal responsibility to government agencies.

    the ideal is self reliance.

  3. Is that a broodwich you're eating? lol.

    Seriously we are needing a balance and noone really does wuite get it right. Self reliance is the truly the key, as the previous poster stated. Think about it, our country was much better off before LBJ and his sweeping social programs. FDR started them but LBJ made it worse. The only way things will ever get better is if people begin looking out for themselves and their neighbors without governement intervention.

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