Living in the United States in a heavy democrat area I hear the republicans lambasted on a daily basis.
As an anarchist I don’t like either of the two parties where I despise the United States government on a daily basis however it does seem like the democrats want to get rid of the republican party in general in that there is a desire to abolish it where I am starting to believe as an outside observer there is a real danger of the United States becoming a single party nation.
I sympathize, I also am around a lot of “democrats” on a regular basis… Some times I think the only reason I don’t hear it more, is that I’m openly republican/Conservative. That, and I like to argue, if they bring it up, I consider it an open topic… I’ve lost a few “friends” this way. (Friends is in quotations because they were actually friends of friends and I never really liked them, just put up with them for the sake of the people I did like.)
I participated in the recent Republican election here in Colorado, I vote generally along party lines (I tend to go for the libertarian candidate anytime I know the republican is going to loose regardless of how I vote.) and I very much dislike the two parties on a regular basis. I’m a fan of an exchange process with the parties, over the ideological paths it has become. In other words, if I could get rid of the silly progressive ideas, I’d vote for the best candidate over idea’s… But Progressivism is alive and well and running the Democrat party.
Democrats see the Republicans as evil… When you are on the side of the angels (as many of them believe), how could you not see the opposition as on the side of the devil… It shows in every action they take when they have power. If you go to the campuses, being “openly” Conservative is tantamount to declaring in favor of rape. Hollywood has the same problem. Any place in which Democrat Progressives are in power, it is dangerous to disagree… This is normal for their ideology. Talk to Ucc sometime about it… He has it worse than me (I’m getting an economic degree, lots of Conservative types, and TONS of Libertarian types, which I get on with quite well, even if we love to argue about the little things)
Its not going to happen. As I said elsewhere, there would be a second Civil War first, and the progressives don’t care for guns… The Conservatives consider it one of the most important rights, and the willingness to fight, instead of relying on someone else to fight (which is what the progressive Democrats are only capable of) is primarily on the Conservative/Libertarian side.