(#5253) The republican party is anti democratic

      Democracy is about the rights of all being the same. Really simple to understand when you put it into a few words that encapsulate a wide ranging definition. For democracy to work all of us have to respect the rights of all of us not just some of us. Whether you are of a persuasion that is not the same as anyone else or not. You have the right to be yourself as long as you are not infringing on the rights of others and are doing no harm to anyone else. With that in mind we can see that gender and race are not to be used as disqualifiers of any right that another holds. So why does the republican party continue to separate out the races when it comes to voting through gerrymandering? Why do the republicans continue to hold women back from equal rights?
     The question of why is for mental health officials to answer because it takes a mind of disarray to want to deny others what they themselves enjoy. Being cruel to others is a mental health issue, not only a political or economic one. For people who live in a democracy to want to take democracy away from others who live in the same democracy is a deep and dark failure of intellect and intuition. But both those of intellect and intuition are encultured to a large degree and must be put to the light of day so that they can be exposed as abnormal and unjust intellect and intuition acculturation. We cannot fail to do this in order to correct the inherent wrongness of denying others what we enjoy for no other reason than a personal mental inability.
     Many liken the anti democratic posture of too many Americans as a cognitive dissonance to explain their irrationality. It is good to put a name to things that are not consistent with logic but the naming of it does not correct the illogic. Most people when offered an equation that proves correct accept that and add that equation to their thought processes. Yet we have too many once again who do not. They will not accept the reality of rationality as a conclusion if it interferes with their long held belief or behavior. Again, a mental disorder that needs more than words to overcome. Somewhere inside the heads of these cognitive dissonant souls is a broken link between reason, analysis, and conclusion that has roots deep in their psyche and needs addressed as a priority to help change their concepts of attitude and behavior.