Mean Gene

When circumstances favor sociopaths you have a real problem. Consider Republican attitudes about taxation. You always cut taxes. You cut taxes when the economy is down. You cut taxes when the economy is up. You always cut taxes.

If this isn’t the definition of ideology, as opposed to adaptation and thinking, it is something close. Add to that, these are not just bad ideas they are self-servingly bad ideas and you have sociopathy. Add to that the cruelty. Gratuitous cruelty.

Their fixed ideas are cruel. Similarly to taxation Republicans are always at war. They must always have enemies. The more the merrier, it seems. The fall of communism was therefore a problem. You see it in their insanity about Islam.

Islam is no threat to us. Nobody is a threat to us. Except ourselves. Democrats aren’t mean. That’s why there is no Fox News or Rush Limbaugh on the left. Democrats don’t need enemies. That’s a disadvantage in fighting Republicans.

Democrats don't have the mean gene. All of the assholes are congregating in the Republican Party. And assholes can be hard to beat. They are delusional assholes, fighting a vulnerable system from the inside. It gives them a huge advantage.