[moodyskeptic]

You’re right. I used to be in their ranks, I guess I’m a Reagan Democrat who never went back the the democrat party after learning to reason. I still travel in liberal circles and these folks DON’T KNOW anybody who disagrees with their utopian dream. Against all logic, they simply assume we all want what they want. The tension between the 2 Americas (left vs right) is getting tighter, something’s gonna snap.

[60Gunner]

Piaget was a theorist in developmental psychology. He identified a stage during infancy as preoperational egocentrism. A defining characteristic of this stage is that the child believes that if he perceives the world in a certain manner, the rest of the world must certainly perceive it in the same manner.

I firmly believe that the ranks of this current personality cult that we call 'liberalism' are filled with adult children, victims of arrested development, people who never got past the preoperational egocentrism stage.

Once they finally grow up and see the world from a mature perspective, they invariably become more conservative in their values and worldview. If they fail to launch, they become 60-year-old hippies who burden society with their idiotic, childish behavior.

[wayoverontheright]

The tension between the 2 Americas (left vs right) is getting tighter, something’s gonna snap....

Yes indeed.

It seems to me the "2 Americas" used to be Republicans and Democrats, but Obama has managed over a short time to make it an openly declared war between the private sector and the public sector. This is a much more personal rift than mere politics, it hits home for all of us with more intensity. This is now a battle over PROPERTY-the coercives versus the coerced.

Do we have the numbers necessary to change things in 2010 and 2012? If not, I agree something will "snap" for sure.