Sometimes I'm glad to see such drastic differences between the two main political parties. I can remember a time circa '95-'99 and again '01-'05 where policy differences between the DNC and RNC were inconsiderable compared to what they are today. That's not saying there weren't huge differences between the parties during the previously listed time frames. It's only saying compared to today, policy differences were negotiable back then. There was a center, a meeting point where two different philosophies could conform. I just don't see that today with the gigantic gap separating the parties.
Take for example economic policy. The modern GOP is stuck in 18th century anticipation for how to handle the current economic mess they created. The official stance of the GOP is to freeze spending, cut taxes and to promise no new taxes. This was also their 2008 nominee for president John McCain's policy too that was widely rejected by the voters. Nonetheless, Republicans want everyone to believe the policies of the last 8 years, which caused the mess we have today, will rescue us from the policies of the last 8 years. It's crazy thinking. In caveman times when government's only role was to deliver the mail and wage war every once in a while, such policies sufficed. But government has a much larger role than that now and to relish in the days of old when only white, land owning men could vote and blacks were considered property is a devastating approach to the 21st century.
In contrast, we see the Democratic Party wanting to invest, sometimes heavily, in the future. Stimulus spending, which has no doubt been effective at jump starting the economy, and now an investment into main street job creation is like night and day when compared to the Republican scheme of shrinking government, controlling spending and cutting taxes, especially when you consider they have no track record of ever actually doing any of it.
So how do you reconcile the two different policies that are separated by hundreds of years of thinking? You can't. Call it what it is and demand we move this country forward.
