Does it ever disturb you how sure everyone is that they are right?

I do agree that this country has become more polarized politically but what disturbs me the most is that so many folks are willing to take someone else's take on a subject or a bill as gospel without checking it out themselves. There are so many special interest groups out there pushing their own agenda and, unfortunately, many of them have the media in their pockets.

This is a very good question, and often with the way things are portrayed in the media, its like you have to choose between the blue pill or the red pill.

I don't think that everyone who belongs to a particular party subscribes wholly to their views. They may diverge on several points but they generally vote for the party whose candidates reflect the majority of their views on issues. The difficulty of electing a third party candidate contributes to this, because people are afraid that a vote for the independent will take votes from one of the other two they agree with more and allow the candidate they like least to win. Since I believe firmly in upholding the Constitution, then I feel it is right to vote for the candidate whose views are most like those espoused by the founding fathers in regards to the role of government, personal responsibility and civil liberties. Because the tenets contained in the Constitution are those the nation was founded upon and stands for, I am firmly convinced this is the right vote for my country. Any other vote would be voting for my country to cease to be what it was meant to be. I can't see how that would be right.