2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Email from a Republican Friend [View all]Xyzse
(8,217 posts)That though I agree that it is best to look for the "Best Possible Outcome/System", one should learn how to figure out how to get there with a basis on honesty and reality.
Sadly, some are stuck in a backwards vision of America or an America that existed only in their minds, not dealing with the current realities and a historical context of what was.
We are on our way to a 3rd world america due to the policies enacted during the 80s(and older), dinged in the 90s(e.g. Clinton repeal of Glass-Steagall), exacerbated in the 00s and continuing so due to unreasonable and dishonest obstruction.
The Norman Rockwell vision of America is a highly pictorialized and sanitized version of things, showing a lifestyle that is idealic but homogeneous. America is far more varied and complex than that. They have to understand that America is not just build upon the legacies of White Christian Males, it was built in the backs of everyone else who was working from the bottom up. That would include all the groups that little opinion derides.
The current Republican party and its adherents is a clown show that is unable to give substantive factual answers to simple questions like dealing with arithmetic.
-I would probably have happily considered Huntsman with Colbert.-