People trying to find common ground between groups might say, “We are more similar than we are different.” But this may not be the case for Republicans and Democrats. Not particularly today. Oh, certainly, we all have the same resistance to heat and cold, need oxygen, need survival, and are fatal. We all have beliefs, but this is where deep differences manifest. Let's consider an impressive example.
96% of Republicans agree to President Donald Trump's executive order, which confirms that there are only two genders.
However, only 14% of Democrats support the measure. 77% are opposed to it, and some are distracted by how more than three-quarters of Democrats believe there are two or more genders.
Of course, it is logical to assume that the above is partially explained by Trump Disorder Syndrome. So some people will reflexively oppose anything the president does. (As commentator Ben Shapiro said in amusingly in 2018, “Trump superpower” means “he can protect anything to the Democrats.”)
Unfortunately, as discovered by the Biden-era PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute), delusions run deeper than that. “90% of Republicans say they only have two genders,” NBC News is linked in 2023, reporting the study. This contrasts with “44% of Democrats who believe in the same thing as 66% of independents.”
Measurement of dislocations from reality
The above recent survey was conducted by Kinipiac University from February 13th to 17th. As FrontPage Magazine reports:
A survey of 1,039 self-identified registered voters raised questions about the current range of political issues, from the economy to Gaza, including “gender and diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Regarding the latter, Quinnipiac wrote:
57% of voters support President Trump's executive order, which only allows two genders in the United States: male and female, while 38% oppose it.
Republicans (96-4 percent) and independents (59-35 percent) support the order, while Democrats (77-14 percent) oppose the order.
(In fact, perhaps explaining the reality of two sex, the gender itself responds very differently to this question. Quinnipiac found that 68% of men support Trump's orders, but only 45% of women do.)
Biology 101
Note here that sexual distinctions are fundamental divisions in nature and have been spotted throughout the animal kingdom. Ah, asexual species exist, but they are very rare among animals. Furthermore, this is a phenomenon where there is only one sex, not more than two.
Humans are no exception. There are many sexual abnormalities (XXY or “KlineFelter syndrome”), but these are not “other genders.” They are examples of abnormalities, and specific variations in which gender does not change in principle.
This separation from reality is not a minor issue either. As FrontPage writes about the Quinnipiac survey results:
These are unsettling numbers, considering that the proportion of people who embraced and denied this scientific reality was 100-0 for all human history in the decadent West. Today, only half believe that half are two genders, proof of decades of success in indoctrination of anti-family, cultural Marxism among the population.
Two different ideological worlds
And it's not just the sexual sector where Democrats and Republicans show the division. Consider controversial efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. Quinnipiac found that 59% of Republicans perceived the phenomenon as “bad.” But just 39% of independents and only 16% of Democrats.
What's more, whether “time heals all wounds” or not, it certainly only exacerbates ideological ones. As Pew Charitable Trusts wrote last Friday, I report on related research.
In some issues, this pattern is not just about the significant changes in American views over the past 20 years. That means Democrats and Republicans have grown even further apart in their view, eroding the common erosion sites between political parties. (In this essay, like most Center Publications, “Democrats” and “Republicans” refer to people who identify or leaned with their party.)
Consider climate change. In 2009, Democrats were already 36 percentage points higher than Republicans, and it was likely that climate change was a major threat to the United States (61% vs. 25%). But by 2022, that partisan gap had grown to 55 points. 78% of Democrats, but only 23% of Republicans saw it as climate change.
…The topic of guns is also increasingly becoming partisan. In 2003, 56% of Republicans and 29% of Democrats said it was more important to protect the rights of Americans who own guns than to control gun ownership, a 27-point gap. However, by 2022, that gap had swelled to 63 points (81% vs. 18%).
The deepest split
Pugh will be added later:
Abortion is another subject that has grown in partisan divisions. In 2007, 63% of Democrats said abortions should be legal in all or most cases. That share has grown to 85% today…
In comparison, there is relatively little change in opinion among Republicans. About four, 10 people continue to say that abortions should be legal in all or most cases. As a result, the partisan gap has skyrocketed from 24 points in 2007 to 44 points today.
The reason why this is happening is clearly a complicated question. But certainly the factor is that Americans were once again universally Christians. Virtually everything was either openly devoted or at least greatly shaped by Christian morality. Because that was the default. This made them virtuously available on the same page. However, this is no longer the case. Rather, we are divided spiritually, morally, and philosophically, so of course we are divided politically.
Bowing at various altars means worshiping a different “God” whether genuine, material or more clearly the devil.
