Liberal Cesspool vs Traditionalist Hawks
A classic debate today rages between the liberated left and the charismatic conservative right. The left cites the hypocrisy of every miscue by self proclaimed right-siders. Conversely, the right considers almost everyone on the left a miscreant. When the smoke clears more of the democrat and republican voters would be considered mainstream, neither evangelical nor deviant. However, political factions in political have no power without the labeling and name calling.
Faction politics serves the power brokers well, but does little in service to our Republic. If people would spend a few minutes defining their own agenda, we might have a chance to jettison the factional nature of today’s political landscape. Politics should be a personal thing. Our neighbor’s beliefs may be similar to our own, but, that does not mean we cannot differ around the edges. The edges should not be the foundation for sound politics, yet we see it as the fundamental glue for the democrats.
Your Enemy is My Enemy
In war that phrase might be applicable. In politics, it makes no sense.
Why would a person align with an axe murder just because the axe guy he has liberal views? That’s a big, “huh?” Which then brings us to the current situation facing social conservatives of faction within the party of Weiner. How do they justify supporting him in office? While it makes no sense, we can see the justifications over and over in today’s newscasts. (‘The non-sex, sex scandal,’ one called it.)
Before you thrown down a,
“hot damn,”
in support of my position, let me light up the BBQ for a toasting of the other side. We find those who are social conservatives uniting with policy wonks who throw everyone under the bus in support of neo-conservative foreign policy. Evangelicals who may or may not believe in Draconian fiscal policies line up beside liberal minded deficit hawks at Tea Party rallies. The term most often bantered about- ‘politics makes for strange bedfellow’ makes no sense on a personal level.
Why would one want to hang out with a smoker when they are anti-smoking? The diversity of belief of both factional conglomerates makes little or no sense to me. I can find more commonality between minority factions within the democrat fold and the republican social conservatives than almost any other alliance. I wonder why social conservatives have not started their own movement which embraces values regardless of color? But, would minority democrats cross the line?
Today, I believe minority democrats could start a new party based on social values and easily win the white house. More independent voters and even republicans would join a party based on middle of the road social values, than would stay with their existing party. If that group were also willing to embark on financial responsibility, they’d have a lock on two of the three branches of government.
That said, one should ask,
“why hasn’t it happened?”
