The extremist ideological version of both the Republicans and
Democrats, are of course, both oversimplified and erroneous. In
reality, a man isn't born either good or evil, rather he's born
with free will (together with karma from past lives, genetic
influences from parents, etc). But of course, most people (American
or otherwise) do not simple mindedly subscribe to either the
extremist ideological version of either the Republicans and
Democrats, but somewhere in between, with an inclination either way
on varying issues. Life is a spectrum of colors, not simplistically
black and white, good or evil, right or wrong. Thankfully
so.
“The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that
Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad, while Democrats
see people as fundamentally good,” said Mr. Watts, who was in the
area to campaign for Senator Rand Paul. “We are born bad,” he said
and added that children did not need to be taught to behave badly —
they are born knowing how to do that.
“We teach them how to be good,” he said. “We become good by
being reborn — born again.”
He continued: “Democrats believe that we are born good, that we
create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the
Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when
things go wrong — not us.”
Mr. Watts talked about the 2015 movie theater shooting in
Lafayette, La., in which two people were killed. Mr. Watts said
that Republicans knew that the gunman was a bad man, doing a bad
thing. Democrats, he added, “would look for other causes — that the
man was basically good, but that it was the guns, society or some
other place where the blame lies and then they will want to control
the guns, or something else — not the man.” Republicans, he said,
don’t need to look anywhere else for the blame.
Hearing Mr. Watts was an epiphany for me. For the first time I
had a glimpse of where many of my conservative friends and
neighbors were coming from. I thought, no wonder Republicans and
Democrats can’t agree on things like gun control, regulations or
the value of social programs. We live in different philosophical
worlds, with different foundational principles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/opinion/why-rural-america-voted-for-trump.html
