There are a lot of interesting ideas here, some of which I haven’t heard before. Two sides being manipulated to hate each other and keep us fighting against each other is nothing new to me but being representative of the two sides of the human brain or water and fire. that’s new to me. It makes sense too. I will have to think about it more...
The media does a great job of focusing on the most extreme and ridiculous examples on both sides that cause each person to want to resist this event extreme examples and become more extreme. Some of these examples start as negligible fringes but out of resistance to the extremity on the other end they become extreme themselves and join the fringe. I’ve seen it on both sides.
The only thing I’d disagree with here is that a democracy and a republic must be interconnected and that one doesn’t work without the other.
Thanks for responding @whatamidoing. Yes I definitely have seen the same effects of opposite extremes. This concept has been called "push-me pull-me" and again uses simple human nature against us. A great example is Democrats crying "We have to help the children!" (of course, we want to help the children) Then we vote for them and the next thing we know our kids are being vaccinated, forced to eat GMO food, Ritalin and are heavily fluoridated. Or, as we see happening in China (Rockefeller's social experiment) cameras are put on each child and they are scrutinized and punished if they aren't fitting 'their' classification of "normal".
Any way you can elaborate on the Democrat/Republican thing? I guess I used the necessity of the interrelated systems mainly in regards to the United States political system.
Here Democracy is (Websters)- "A government where the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised through a system of representation and free elections." (abridged)
A Republic is a system of government that has no monarch or ruler but an elected President, and the supreme power is exercised by the citizens right to vote which is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to the citizens and who govern according to law.
I still see these two things as completely interrelated and dependent upon each other. Do you have alternative information that may enlighten me?
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