I’m trying to figure out how to be partisan without being ideological. It’s the “I’m ritualistic but not spiritual” of politics.
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Easy. Vote a straight party ticket and don’t think about it. Many folks don’t. Sometimes we can over intellectualize these things :P
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"ritualistic but not spiritual"
That seem to describe a significant amount of the GOP that continues to make a show of voting or debating anything.
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Isn't that all the evangelicals who decided that free trade was bad and character didn't matter in the last 3 years?
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Partisanship is easy. It’s the quest for tribal power through political and rhetorical skill unto the sacrifice of all else.
Ideological is easy. It’s the maintenance of established philosophical dogma unto the point of cognitive dissonance at the margin of madness.
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Political parties, like religious denominations, ultimately just reduce to cognitive shortcuts disguised as responsibility sinks.








