I agree with the first part, but I think 'conservative' means different things to different people. Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are values conservatives who are not authoritarian and believe in balancing budgets. I think they have little in common with Trump and hold people like Jeff Sessions at arm's length.temporal1 wrote:well, KB, to me, your statement presumes an organized conservative group, i see zero indication such a thing exists.
however, the (minority) left is highly organized, to the point they follow a single script, whether they individually agree on it or not. to me, that's dangerous, if not cult-like.
the U.S. was structured to attempt to cope with exactly this: greed, power, politics.
so, the system may not be completely broken.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are quite far from each other in many ways, and they had different supporters. Just as the Republican establishment's attempt to keep Trump out failed, the Democratic establishment's attempt to marginalize Bernie Sanders failed. There's not a lot of lock-step on either side of the aisle.
To me, Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, and Mitt Romney are a lot more like each other than any of them are to Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.
If you take a careful look at either side, you see that they differ on several axes.