It is very complicated and FAR more basic than Democrat, Republican or party.
Frankly, that's a largely meaningless statement unless you explain it. I'm thoroughly confused as to how to could be FAR more
basic than political party, yet at the same time be very complicated. In what way is it very complicated? In what way is it far more basic than political ideologies?
Both sides borderline wanting a dictator to run the country if you listen closely.
That's a very astute observation, I think, and goes to what Dreamer noted - that there is no more civilized discussion.
For decades, nearly the entire whole of this country, people have gotten though the good times and the bad times and come out mostly OK. During those times, disagreements with political ideologies can be tolerated and discussed intelligently, albeit still emotionally. But tolerance has always been the underlying issue, because with any of the ideologies it was always the same goal, just different ways to get there.
That's changed. The goals are no longer the same. On the right the goals are mainly to maintain the status quo, in fine conservative fashion, to make the corrections to problems the country has by using tried and true, mostly outdated methods, in the hopes that things will one day return to yesteryear. On the left, the goal is nothing short of a complete transformation of America into something that is very different than it ever has been, into some Utopian fantasy that cannot exist. Obama didn't invent this ideology, it's been bubbling in earnest for several years, but his election and the Democratic majority in Congress finally gave them the opportunity to begin.
Democrats honestly believe the world will be better off once America’s transformation is complete. A few years of grinding unemployment, weak economic growth, and towering national debt are small prices to pay, especially since Obama, his close political allies, and his top donors aren’t the ones paying it. But the Hope that was promised is gone. The notion that America is the land of opportunity has largely faded from the American populace. The possibility of prosperity has been replaced with despair and hopelessness, and as such people have little tolerance for things that aren't making it any better.
The Democrats feel the transformation of America is being thwarted at every opportunity by Republicans, so they will no longer tolerate a political ideology different than their own. Their very lives are now at stake. The Republicans believe the Democrats are literally destroying America, and their very lives are at stake, as well, so they will no longer tolerate opposing ideologies. Calm, rational and intelligent discussion is no longer possible when your very survival is at stake.
Both sides want their lives to improve, to have the possibility of being able to get ahead in life. At this point they just want to be able to survive. They each know the other's views and policies are not working, and will not work, and they will not change their own views in the hopeless notion that the other side will make life better, because they see no evidence that it will get better. They're sticking to what they know, and have no patience for anything that interferes with it.
As a result, they want their ideas to be forced onto the other side, whether they like it or not, and if it requires a dictator, so be it, as long as the dictator is on their side. That's how desperate people have become.
