This applies to both Republicans and Democrats.
I think of the days when Christian apologetics was big and a lot of focus was put into how to win over atheists to Christianity by using reason. Now imagine the Christian approaches the atheists by just spouting out Christian beliefs or something related, and then presuming or not caring if the atheists agrees or not. Would we expect for atheists to jump on board and start following Jesus? Ha!
Well, that's how a lot of political discussions are nowadays. Many Democrats and Republicans want people to be on their side, but then many of them don't tolerate disagreement or they just paint the other as an evildoer (the Christian equivalent of calling someone a dirty sinner) if they disagree. Conversations usually start off as just one side wanting to get their view across instead of seeing what the other person thinks.
This is why I believe the two political parties are doomed to fail either from self-inflicted damage or just from the two parties destroying each other so much that the country can't stand unless it runs to someone else. An alternative is if the Dems and Repubs in leadership start to move to being less partisan and polarizing. Even then, I think we could use an independent party or many more parties, imo.
I think of the days when Christian apologetics was big and a lot of focus was put into how to win over atheists to Christianity by using reason. Now imagine the Christian approaches the atheists by just spouting out Christian beliefs or something related, and then presuming or not caring if the atheists agrees or not. Would we expect for atheists to jump on board and start following Jesus? Ha!
Well, that's how a lot of political discussions are nowadays. Many Democrats and Republicans want people to be on their side, but then many of them don't tolerate disagreement or they just paint the other as an evildoer (the Christian equivalent of calling someone a dirty sinner) if they disagree. Conversations usually start off as just one side wanting to get their view across instead of seeing what the other person thinks.
This is why I believe the two political parties are doomed to fail either from self-inflicted damage or just from the two parties destroying each other so much that the country can't stand unless it runs to someone else. An alternative is if the Dems and Repubs in leadership start to move to being less partisan and polarizing. Even then, I think we could use an independent party or many more parties, imo.
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