kiwiman127
Comfortably Moderate
Voting the party line has little-to-nothing to do with ideology....It has to do with being a good little party man stooge.That's good!!! Anything construed as group think today really means dumb think, unable to think individually, lacking coherent thought in terms of actual constructive thought, and what not. Basically, the founders would be laughing their asses between the tears of horror, and then quickly boarding a clipper and sailing off to start all over again.
Actually, I think that description really describes ideologues better. I've always said that being married to an ideology keeps an individual boxed in and prohibits thinking out of the box.
When I go though posts on these boards, I find there are times that I keep on reading the same train of thought and at times word-for-word posts by different individuals all belonging to the same ideology.
Then there's Washington, it's rare when an elected official doesn't vote the party line. And when they do, they get chastised by their party. If they do it too much, their party finds someone to run against them. Heaven forbid individual thought and representing the constituents.!
There's a difference.
Thanks, that's a point worth considering.