I am not a Republican, and even if I were, I am not the type to vote party lines. However, I find myself irritated by the strange stereotyping of Republicans as a bunch of old rich white dudes, overly zealous Christian white people, NASCAR fans, and Jingoists. This keeps showing up on websites, in magazines, sit-coms. It's as bad as the stereotype of Democrats as pot smoking, tree hugging, pro-choicers that feel bad when they say something politically incorrect. Both are the extreme versions of the party, and I have always felt that judging anything by its worst part is probably a really piss-poor way to understand anything.
This division amongst the general voting population is killing us, and distracting us.
As J. Billingston Bulworth once said, "Black people and white people have more in common than they have with rich people." Well I think, the average Republican has more in common with the average Democrat, than either has for a Rush Limbaugh, or a Nancy Pelosi.
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