Cultural Bundling

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5. Please no "g" talk

I want to talk about Cultural Bundling. If it devolves into a gun discussion the thread will get locked and I might get banned.

Mountainman is expressive about the very point I bring up. It used to be both parties had a much wider tent. More so the Republicans to my mind, but both parties have been furiously involved in purity purges and it can't be a good thing.

I know I grew up in a Western Pennsylvania Steel Town and we were all Democrats. We were all Union too. I look at the Democratic Party today and I know without a doubt many of my neighbors would feel disrespected by the Democratic Party today.

I think the Cultural Bundling also condenses the field of acceptable attitudes. If you don't match pretty closely with prevailing attitudes you are pretty much rejected across the board. I think both parties have been greatly expanding the number of Independents who don't fit so neatly into Party dogma. At some point all those Independents are going to coalesce around something -- which may not be such a bad thing overall but might be bad for the established Parties.