Democrats Vs Republicans

Demonizing your opponent in any capacity is a chaotic endless fight that ends with both parties destroyed. So please do not make the mistake of assuming I am advocating for a specific side.
 
“Republican” Conservative: Less federal power more state power. Less overarching power and more individualized power
“Democrat” Liberal: More federal power and less state power. More overarching power to standardize power throughout.
For some reason we have gotten to a point where these terms no longer embody or portray the political parties in America today. These political parties over the years have grown and taken on morals as jewels in their shields.
By now both parties have decorated their shields with so many jewels that they are completely unrecognizable from their original form.  Their logic and Rhetoric are chaotic and only embodies self-preservation instead of the founding opposing ideals that are needed to prop up this institution. They were meant to be the Yin and Yang that kept this country and democracy running. Not a generalization and categorization of the things and/or morals you either like or don’t like.

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A good point of reference and palatable way to show this is Jimmy Kimmel’s video from Jul 28th 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyXiu927WU
 
‘Republicans’ describe the ‘Democrats’ as these utopians, head in the clouds, idealist without the means.
‘Democrats’ describe the ‘Republicans’ as an arrogant force of order without regard.
I know you can argue that those selected people are not an encompassing view and we can’t generalize from the few. But they are spewing repeated ideas or thoughts tossed around in their communities. And these distilled rationalizations come from a frame of logic/world view that is given to them in a different manner, one that did not support their thought, they would utterly reject it.
Stop looking for short sighted answers and start to build a moral compass that is not easily distracted by the interference of circumstance.