I am reminded of a comment I heard Dennis Miller make a year or so ago about why he moved from being a Democrat to being a Republican. It had to do with how more and more of his friends on the left had started comparing the right to Nazi's and Religious Nuts.
I found this today, and it articulates the point rather well. It's an essay from a Democrat to fellow Democrats. Read it here.
Actually, no. Our error is that we Democrats are far less understanding than we think we are. Our version of understanding the other side is to look at them from a psychological point of view while being completely unwilling to take their arguments seriously. "Well, he can't help himself, he's a right-wing religious zealot, so of course he's going to think like that." "Republicans who never served in war are hypocrites to send young men to die. " "Republicans are homophobes, probably because they can't deal with their secret desires." Anything but actually listening and responding to the arguments being made.
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