When people talk about the polarization in politics getting unbearably uncomfortable it usually ends up with liberals blaming the Republicans for their rigid right wing ideology and conservatives blaming liberals for their far left moonbat ideology.
They are both wrong. This video sums up the difference between the dichotomy.
You see liberals believe we, the people, belong to the government. Whereas conservatives know that government, at least the government established by the US Constitution, exists to serve the people.
Now most Americans understand our government is not, by any stretch of the imagination, similar to that envisioned by our forefathers, historically some of the most brilliant statesmen to ever gather at one time. However, most Americans do not envision themselves being vassals devoid of real freedom either.
Yet the Democrat National Party, at the Democrat National Convention, informs us how we all belong to the government. Dependent upon this government to bestow permissions, privileges and licenses to them in the guise of rights. The trap being that the government does not grant rights, as the government can take away things as quickly as they can grant them.
However, I digress, the point I intended to make is that the way most people misunderstand the schizm in modern American politics as a right wing ideology vs. left wing ideology. But it is much more than that, it is defending freedom and liberty vs. being a subject to a government, which while not omnipotent, is on the way to being made so by the choices of we, the people... or at least 50% + 1 of the people... make mostly in the name of partisan politics and afte receiving government bribes in the way of the bestowing of rights, the granting of entitlements, or the giving privileges that offer preferences (biases) to one group over another..
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