My dad plays a lot of conservative talk radio, so whenever we're driving somewhere together I get to hear a good bit of that. People certainly are fanatically loyal to their party. The two-party system here in the States strikes me as two tribes of hunter-gatherers viciously battling each other out of a pure warrior instinct, rather than two opposing philosophical perspectives. Those radio shows are always generalizing and slandering "the liberals", accusing them of stupidity, nearsightedness, corruption, and just about every other evil, even going so far as to call them names like "cockroaches".
If you're dividing up the entire spectrum of political viewpoints into a grand total of TWO camps, liberal and conservative, then surely these words paint with a very broad brush -- surely these two camps are themselves filled with great diversity of opinion. It must be a mistake to make generalizations of such a massive, diverse group of people?
People seem to want to line up all political views on a one-dimensional axis, ranging from liberal to moderate to conservative. I think there must be many, many, dimensions. You can't measure the beauty of Michelangelo's sculptures with a ruler.
how utterly ignorant and blind can some country's voting population be?!
Well... is it really the ignorance of the voting population? Or is Democracy Inc. fudging the numbers for its own purposes? Maybe we can still hold onto a shred of hope for the general public.