07-07-2024, 04:20 PM
. . . . they are about ideology.
Way back when, we used to be able to pretend that both parties wanted the same thing, they just had different ways of going about it.
That's all gone now.
We want different things now.
Some want freedom, others welcome a soft tyranny.
"Soft tyranny is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work titled Democracy in America.[sup][1][/sup] It is described as the individualist preference for equality and its pleasures, requiring the state – as a tyrant majority or a benevolent authority – to step in and adjudicate.[sup][2][/sup] In this regime, political leaders operate under a blanket of restrictions and, while it retains the practical virtues of democracy, citizens influence policymaking through bureaucrats and non-governmental organizations.[sup][3][/sup] This is distinguished from despotism or tyranny (hard tyranny) in the sense that state of government in such democratic society is composed of guardians who hold immense and tutelary (protective) power.[sup][4]"[/sup]
Soft tyranny - Wikipedia
That's why people will vote for a convicted felon vs a dementia-riddled old man.
Their either voting against the opponent's ideology or for their own.
Way back when, we used to be able to pretend that both parties wanted the same thing, they just had different ways of going about it.
That's all gone now.
We want different things now.
Some want freedom, others welcome a soft tyranny.
"Soft tyranny is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work titled Democracy in America.[sup][1][/sup] It is described as the individualist preference for equality and its pleasures, requiring the state – as a tyrant majority or a benevolent authority – to step in and adjudicate.[sup][2][/sup] In this regime, political leaders operate under a blanket of restrictions and, while it retains the practical virtues of democracy, citizens influence policymaking through bureaucrats and non-governmental organizations.[sup][3][/sup] This is distinguished from despotism or tyranny (hard tyranny) in the sense that state of government in such democratic society is composed of guardians who hold immense and tutelary (protective) power.[sup][4]"[/sup]
Soft tyranny - Wikipedia
That's why people will vote for a convicted felon vs a dementia-riddled old man.
Their either voting against the opponent's ideology or for their own.
