Back in the day I used to believe politics was just the elite ruling class fighting over tax money, mostly for the purpose of lining their own pockets. Therefore party idiosyncrasies as I viewed them were merely different flavors of the same junk food.
Then there was a period around the time I retired and Trump got elected where I started paying attention to it thinking, wow, look at all this abortion, guns, immigration, whatever going on! They’re really wrestling with alot ‘o crap eh? But when the input stopped being snippets of Fox News and ramblings of coworkers, something unexpected emerged: I was right all along.
A good pandemic and insurrection later it’s pretty clear I had it right, sorta. The only flavor difference is one wants to spend your tax dollars, the other wants to keep them for themselves.
