Our side is to smart

I think the real problem with the politics of this nation is that one party truly seeks to inform and educate people. That they want to bring the truth to light and show everyone what's really happening.

The other side just wants you to believe what you believe, to pander to your fears, your hatred, your ignorance of the world.

The problem with this is that one side becomes about winning and losing, while the other side is about doing right by people. One side is like a sports franchise that has fans while the other side is a movement of people trying to effect the world in a positive way.

The Republican Party is morally bankrupt. The "Small Government, balanced budget" party is now the party that invades your bedroom to make sure your partner isn't someone that's the same sex as you. They invade your doctor's office to make sure you're not having an abortion. They invade your death bed and demand you be kept alive by machines. They run up huge debts and don't even attempt to balance the budget. Yet their followers remain. What issues they run on or what stance they take is meaningless. I've heard many people claim to be 'truly liberatian' and thusly, to be relevent to American politics, they vote Republican.

How any liberatian can ever see themselves in the GOP camp is beyond me, the only issue they have any ground on over Democrats is on guns, and the Dems have long given up on gun control as a national issue. On all other issues of personal freedom the Democrats are light years better then the Republicans.

Yet this hardly effects their angry base. There are many conservatives who are intelligent and do care about issues, but this is not about them. This is about the angry horde, the 30% of America who will just vote for whoever has an "R" before their name. It is like rooting for a Red Sox or a Colt. The person is meaningless, the team they play for has your loyality.

This is the problem for Democrats. I can honestly say I don't know anyone who's a blindly loyal democrat. I might be living in a vacuum, but I've dealt with a great many people who will vote for whoever the GOP puts before them, while those who do vote Democrat do so because they care about the issues, and the Democrats happen to represent that the best.

It is saddening to know that after 6 years of Bush's rule, we still have so many people supporting him, what could ever change their minds? I doubt anything, they are truly unreachable, and will just support 'the home team' for as long as they live.