Exactly Willismsmith! Thanks. 😄
You may be right about the money and control part, that is if by control you mean that the limits the constitution puts on the government should be jealously guarded, and by money you mean that the government's proclivity to see approximately half of it's citizens as a profit center and the other half as voters to be bought with the proceeds from the former should be discouraged.
I think that pretty much sums up the average Republican's motivations, although I can see how progressives might intentionally misinterpret loudly and frantically, as a limited government has a lesser ability to enforce ideologies.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
Fair enough. Obviously everyone brings their own past, own beliefs, hopes and fears, and their own point on the continuum of optimism/pessimism to how they perceive things. I wish I were as optimistic as you but I've always had a fair amount of pessimism.
I don't think, though, that the "resistance" is hoping for a revolution (if I'm understanding your last sentence correctly.) At it's heart I think the resistance wants the same thing as you, the continuance of our institutions in a stable, trust-able fashion. It's just that we're concerned that if we don't fight these gross breaches of our norms that everything will in fact come tumbling down around us.
"Many" is of course a bit of sophistry.
How "many" is "many"? 40% of America seems to self-identify as "conservative", which we might choose to take as a proxy for "right-wing". There are ~246 million adults in the USA. That's ~100 million people who are "right-wing".
How many of those 100 million are "flaming hypocrites"? What *portion* of the 100 million is that? How does that compare to other political leanings?
I mean, yes, if there is a population of 100 million to draw non-random samples out of, it's pretty easy to come up with 1 million extreme cases, and use that to form a narrative "this represents the entire population". Yet those extreme cases, if the trait you are looking for is normally-distributed in the population, are more than two sigma out from the median....
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