The Partisan Gap

[bytor2112]

The partisan divide......recent poll stats.

[DigitalShadow]

I don't think I really needed a poll to tell me that the partisan divide in this country is growing, the massive amount of anti-democrat posts make that pretty clear.

[LittleWyvern]

I'm not surprised. The combination of polarizing speech of GOP spiritual leaders (Limbaugh, Beck, etc.) and an enamored Democratic Congress makes me wonder why the gap isn't bigger.

[bytor2112]

I hope you don't see my posts as anti-democrat posts. I do see the Democratic party as completely out of control, led by a bunch of incompetent boobs that may well succeed in destroying this nation as we know it. The Republican Party is only slightly less dangerous and filled with a bunch of incompetent boobs as well.

I am a libertarian by nature...please note the small L. I am for what is best for America and could give a rats hind end about the name of the party.

[LittleWyvern]

I hope you don't see my posts as anti-democrat posts.

Uhh...

I do see the Democratic party as completely out of control, led by a bunch of incompetent boobs that may well succeed in destroying this nation as we know it.

What other conclusion are we to derive from this?

[DigitalShadow]

I hope you don't see my posts as anti-democrat posts. I do see the Democratic party as completely out of control, led by a bunch of incompetent boobs that may well succeed in destroying this nation as we know it. The Republican Party is only slightly less dangerous and filled with a bunch of incompetent boobs as well.

I am a libertarian by nature...please note the small L. I am for what is best for America and could give a rats hind end about the name of the party.

The percentage of your posts that criticize democrats or democrat leaders far exceeds the percentage of your posts that criticize republicans or republican leaders. I don't think you are consciously trying to be anti-democrat, but to say that you have a bit of a bias is an understatement :)

[bytor2112]

The percentage of your posts that criticize democrats or democrat leaders far exceeds the percentage of your posts that criticize republicans or republican leaders. I don't think you are consciously trying to be anti-democrat, but to say that you have a bit of a bias is an understatement :)

What can I say....the Democrats have controlled Congress since '06 and now they control the Whitehouse. The Republicans are a bunch of spineless weasels and have trashed there Party and sold out their alleged principles.

[rameumptom]

I'm also a libertarian. And right now, with the Dems in control of everything, they are going to be the bigger targets. The Republicans had their shameful works just a few years ago. Now, they don't have a single idea, except more tax breaks. How about some REAL ideas, like Reagan or Newt Gingrich once had?

As for the Democrats, Barak Obama may be president, but it is Nancy Pelosi who is dictator-in-charge. And she's promoting a wasteful and socialist agenda that will lead us into a financial crisis similar to the Soviet Union's crash in the early 1990s.

[Dravin]

I don't think I really needed a poll to tell me that the partisan divide in this country is growing, the massive amount of anti-democrat posts make that pretty clear.

Well if everyone hated the democrats there wouldn't be a divide.

[DigitalShadow]

Well if everyone hated the democrats there wouldn't be a divide.

If everyone hated the democrats, there wouldn't be a divide, but there also wouldn't be democrats. That means conservatives would have to find some other group to blame all the problems of the world on and partisanship will re-establish itself and we'll be right back where we started.

[Hemidakota]

I hope you don't see my posts as anti-democrat posts. I do see the Democratic party as completely out of control, led by a bunch of incompetent boobs that may well succeed in destroying this nation as we know it. The Republican Party is only slightly less dangerous and filled with a bunch of incompetent boobs as well.

I am a libertarian by nature...please note the small L. I am for what is best for America and could give a rats hind end about the name of the party.

I am an Independent and even I can see the growing gap.

[Dravin]

If everyone hated the democrats, there wouldn't be a divide, but there also wouldn't be democrats. That means conservatives would have to find some other group to blame all the problems of the world on and partisanship will re-establish itself and we'll be right back where we started.

So partisanship is the beast that cannot be killed.

I know I'm a bit of a geek but now I've got the image of a bunch of villagers with blackjacks trying to kill a D&D troll.

P.S. I wasn't saying people should hate the democrats, just that if some message boards were representative (not limiting it to this board) one of the parties would be the loonies in the background that nobody paid attention to and you'd have a lot less friction, who pays attention to a chihuahua? :)

[rameumptom]

Well if everyone hated the democrats there wouldn't be a divide.

Except, some of us hate the Republicans, also.....

[Dravin]

Except, some of us hate the Republicans, also.....

If everyone hated a Democratic president then Obama's figures (though one would wonder how he got in office) would be 0% Approval from everyone, no gap. The reverse is also true, if everyone loved a non-Republican president it would be 100% approval for everyone, no gap.

Universal hate (or love) removes a lot of diversity of opinion, at least as far as rah rah rah go *Republicans or Democrats* boo *Democrats of Republicans*

P.S. I will confess my comment was not a well thought out and keenly insightful comment into the nature of politics, twas a silly throw away comment.

[Maxel]

The entire Democrat vs. Republican debate, when thrown in context of the Gospel, reminds me of a quote from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity:

"[The devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs; pairs of opposites, and he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking about which is the worse... He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one."

I'm not versed in the origins or the fine details of each of the parties, but they both seem wrong: neither party grounds itself in principles that will actually work. I think some conservatives are too staunch, xenophobic and grounded in tradition as opposed to actual truth; some liberals are just too... open-minded to all the wrong things.

In my mind, the greatest downfall of bipartisanship to this country is to shift the political energy and discussion subtly away from the issues at hand to mud-slinging contests and a desire to be different than one's opponent. I think Washington had the right idea when he suggested we don't adopt two major political parties.