Me too. This is just something that keeps repeating itself in my mind. I'm not a natural evangelist. But I'm convinced that this is where I need to focus my attention.
With the shift of only a few percent you can see that the two parties no longer even share a common political language. At one time you could easily find believers in both parties; and as a result there was a common language between us even if we differed widely on policy. But as one party has steadily squeezed its believers out, the common language has broken down.
That is what has struck me lately, not just that we differ on policy but that there seems no longer to be a common language, there seem no longer to be any common fundamentals, no common understanding of history, no common understanding of essential morality, no common understanding of the purposes of life itself.
In the conversations I've had with friends in the Obama camp, and the Clinton camp before that, what I've found is that persuasion was impossible. It wasn't just that they were wrong about the facts, which is solvable, but that they view the facts through a completely different lens. Thats a deeper problem. That you don't solve with a debate about policy.
That is so true!
That sounds like it’d be a good thing for someone to write about! ;)