Power Line’s John Hinderaker writes about a survey done to determine what Democrats and Republicans consider the important issues facing our nation. He presents the findings and - no surprises - the adherents of the two parties don’t agree about much. I believe you’ll find the results, which I won’t repeat here, interesting.
Equally interesting are Hinderaker’s conclusions about them.
Increasingly, liberals and conservatives don’t even seem to be living on the same planet. Their political concerns and agendas are largely ships that pass in the night.
I wonder, increasingly, whether it is viable for America’s conservatives and liberals to continue sharing a country. It is one thing to disagree, quite another to inhabit different worlds altogether. In my opinion, the Democrats’ world is a fantasy construct. They might say the same about mine, although it seems hard to argue that illegal immigration, high taxes, etc. do not exist. But that reinforces my point. Do we, at this juncture, have not just enough shared experience, but even enough shared epistemology, to jointly govern a country?
More to the point, do members of either party wish to share a country with people who seem to inhabit an alternate reality? It seems that increasingly the answer is they do not. A Czech divorce could be on the horizon.
