Do Liberals need Republicans and vise versa?

[DoniDanko]

Originally Posted by iNviNciBL3

I have a lot of family members who are conservatives.

I'm not taking about excommunicating each other... I'm talking about if we had 2 Americas where one side was under Conservative rule and the other under Liberal rule, how could Liberals prosper without the jobs and taxes that Conservatives generate.

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by DoniDanko

I was wondering if America ever split into 2 halves, red=Republican and blue=Liberal, what do you think the outcome would be? I was thinking that even though Liberals hate Conservative views (and vise versa), they're Liberal views couldn't survive without Conservative, but Conservative would be okay at least for a while without Liberals. Most businesses (job suppliers) and the people who pay the most taxes that keep America going tend to lean Republican. Also, most violent crimes occur in low income Liberal districts. On top of that, most Liberals are against guns and want to depend on the government to protect them or do not think that crime is bad enough to need any protection at all. On the other hand, there would be no or less of safety net for low income people as well as a less tolerance for gays, minorities, nonchristains, government regulation of companies, and other social and environmental issues on the Republican side... Even with that said, I'm just wondering how would Liberalism be able to survive without Republican footing the bill and supplying the "low paying" jobs that Liberals are always complaining about?


In you're opinion, what would a split America look like? Does each side actually need the other, or can both sides survive without one another?

Of course they need each other, there has to be a balance. Not all liberal ideals are terrible, not all conservative ideals are terrible. If you do not have balance, you will fail.

[sholomar]

Yes, because both parties are full of lunatics that want to implement lunacy on the people, gridlock is important from keeping lunatics from having power. The people who want to 'split the country up' so they can have their own political ideologies take over don't know how misguided they are...

[wutitiz]

Economist William Niiskanen studied spending patterns, and found that there was the most restraint when we had divided government, as we do now with the GOP controlling the house, and the Democrats controlling the Senate and white house. The biggest spending binges have come when either party controlled all three.

Given that, as Bob Woodward has said, the fundamental problem of the federal gov't now is "spending addiction," divided gov't is to the good. If the GOP has aspirations of taking back the Senate and WH in 2016, it would be imperative to get a true conservative ideologue, like a Ted Cruz, who would be less susceptible to repeating the mistakes of 2000-2006.