Well this discussion certainly hasn't moved beyond Red and Blue. In regards to recent comments, in issue after issue the conservative Democrats are more like the two groups to their left, the other Democrats, then to the Republican groups.
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=948 Right now the debate is centered around foreign policy and that is why on national politics the GOP keeps getting narrow wins. War in Iraq - Was it the Right Decison? Enterprisers 94% Yes Social Conservatives 88% Pro-government Conservatives 72% Upbeats 66 Disaffecteds 50 -- oops, the center slightly supports this Conservative Democrats 28 Disadvantaged Democrats 15 Liberals 11 Perhaps the GOP should stop bashing liberals. Liberals are the only Democratic group where a slim majority believes since we are already there we need to stay and not send our troops home now. Politics does seem more about identity now and a few ideas that are repeated over and over again in the boom box media. French bashing for example. While praising Bush for acting out for America's self-interest it become morally beyond the pale and the basis for condemning entire countries like France when it is believed to have considered its own interests. There is way too much "cheese-eating surrender monkey" talk as you might expect when we have fallen into the politics of Eric Hoffer's "True Believers" and their particular psychological problems. Gary "who once heard Rush totally misread Hoffer as supporting his dittoheads" Denton Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
