Interestingly, in my decades as a Republican, I viewed liberal Democrats as similarly logic-impaired. I won’t derail the thread with specifics, but in a general sense I found Republicans more pragmatic and logical in their solutions to problems. And thought the Democrats as a whole had good intentions, but often ignored the unintended consequences of their policies.
But the last 2+ years has certainly disabused be of any such thoughts, so no need to point out the unprincipled cesspool that the Republican Party has become - and that I no longer affiliate with.
It may well be worthwhile to note that Democrats certainly are very much human as well, and thus also notably fallible. I don't regard the Democratic Party, as a whole, as particularly better or worse intellectually than they were, say, 20 years ago. I consider the Democrats somewhat iffy, overall, but with their hearts largely in the right places. Mostly, at least, because a number of them are overly influenced by big money pusher agendas still. With that said, the depths that the Republican Party has sunk to has certainly provoked a distinct movement among the Democrats to clean things up and alter the status quo for the better. That's a good thing. May it last and be quite impactful.
The current Republican Party is indeed a blatantly obviously unprincipled cesspool, one which caters directly to the big money pushers. 20 years ago, though, to carry on the example, they were at least much more defensible and less obvious. Furthermore, they were notably better intellectually then compared to now, I'd say. Still catering directly to the big money pushers, though, but with much more on their plates.
Either way, I can still respect actual conservatives, even if I may disagree with them frequently, and think that they should very much be a respected part of the conversation to temper and help identify the actual problems in more liberal proposals.
