The country is divided by ideology, not tribalism. Yes there is tribalism, but it is secondary to ideology. The right wing gets this wrong more often then the left wing because while the left understands the right, the right has almost no understanding of the left.
So when people on the right drift to the "third way", thinking it is profound, it is because they don't understand the lefts ideology, and that reason and dogma cannot be mixed, it is like oil and water.
And the thesis of the difference, is really pitting the past's primitive dogma and oligarchical self serving propaganda against modern understanding. So where the "third way" and moderate folks think compromise is the sensible solution, the left knows differences in ideology and dogma cannot be compromised.
Let me provide a couple of examples. Abortion.The left will never agree to going back to making abortion illegal like the right wing wants, or as extreme example so recent in history, taking the vote away from women, segregation, or supply side economics sold to us by the Oligarchs.
The right wing is much more tribal than the left because dogma lends itself to tribalism, but ideology, reason, not so much, as many problems have different thoughtful possible solutions and why we dems are like herding cats.
And the Republican are like herding sheep-lol. Sorry, I could not resist. |
