Let’s Talk Politics | Capital Commentary

Let’s Talk Politics | Capital Commentary by Clay Cooke.  MGB: I suspect the reason that face to face political confrontation is rare is that, by and large, our positions are due as much to our group identities as they are by any individual initiative.  We mostly join with people who share our beliefs rather than seek out people so that we can change their opinions.  We will not find a confessionally Christian Democratic movement in either party - we must create one - in essence we must build it and they will come.  While we can certainly go to other groups to poach members, we won't be taking over any other side.  With the Republicans appearing to go off the deep end by reducing themselves largely to a group of older white males marked more and more by the politics of resentment, there may even be an opportunity to organize a new alternative.   Indeed, it is why I am going on the internet discussing issues, rather than simply chosing a tribe (likely the Democrats) and following the party line.