Reply #12: Human nature

[TayTay]

We all connect to actual real live human beings every day. We are all students of human nature, at least on some level. It is basic human nature to feel what happens to you more than what happens to someone else.

The art of politics is to make people feel that what is good for them is good for a greater community. This is a very difficult art to practice. Republicans do this in a negative way. They play the fear card that whispers to people that others are taking their lives and money and so forth away. The "other" doing this is unworthy and "pulling a fast one on you." Democrats try and whisper that the "other" out there is actually just like you and you both gain when you act together. One fosters change, one does not. One path is definitely easier than another.

These are two strains in the American character. They have always been there.