They are today. Or I mean they have in the past few years. Giving you what you think you want is not always a good idea. Unfortunately, America is getting what it wants now.
My post 72, “”Did teacher give us Romney/Obamacare and take our guns away, and try to give us gay Scout leaders and convince us of the importance of being pro-abortion, and tell us why homosexuals need to share foxholes with us?””
Was a description of Mitt Romney’s politics and positions.
“They are today. Or I mean they have in the past few years. Giving you what you think you want is not always a good idea. Unfortunately, America is getting what it wants now.”
It is not geting what you think you want its is what they are convenced by a carrasmaic man is fair & caring.
If “humanity possesses six moral foundations”(as the artical suggest) and they are “care, fairness, liberty, authority, sanctity, and loyalty” And liberals & “centerist” only possess two of them: “care, fairness”.
Then there is no reason anther carasmic man might not convence people some other policy is “caring and fair”.
There is also insodently no reason such a population lacking a value in “authority”, “sanctity”(of institution) or “loyalty”(to a particular man) would necessarily react so badly if their dominate carrasmic leader simply ended up dead.
To put it simply politics in this country will become more cutthroat, as despots & rivals are removed in political competition. unfortunately it is only a matter of time before a new Caesar is anointed.
Pray that the union is not preserved long enough to find out, or be consolidated under such a man. As John Adams pointed out 200 years ago sectionalism is our only defense against such faction.