The Trumpists' red glare

The democracy and the republic was a thought experiment, something i thought we could bat about on the playing fields of The Institute.  At some point we would have to share, we don't really want to build two roads to Beaglesonia.  Well I suppose you would choose the republican road, but once you saw all the benefits of the kumbaya singing democrats and wanted to join us, that would become the democratic road.  But what of, say, Kedzie Avenue, with reps and dems living on the same street?  Taxes and armies are fun to talk about, but once you get down to mending potholes it gets a little boring.

There are some ideological differences between the left and right.  It seems to me that the main one is that the right believes more strongly in the rights of the individuals, you guys are all islands, and the left believes more strongly in everybody getting along and helping out each other, we are all one big island I suppose.  I wonder if a individualist government that was running well would please a collectivist who would be whining about why aren't we helping the poor. or if a collectivist government that was running well would please an individualist who was pissed at having to help out a bunch of freeloaders.

But ideology aside I think that both sides also feel that their side would run the government more smoothly as far as say, peace and prosperity.  But what if it could be proved say, that trickle down worked, or that by helping the poor generously they could be raised into the middle class and work good jobs and pay more taxes?  Would either one of us agree that the other side was right?

I was pretty sure that concealed carry was going to have us shooting each other in the street, but that never happened.  You said that if gay marriage was legalized that it would hurt your marriage, but you have since said that it hasn't.  These are kind of peripheral issues on the grand scale of right and left and individual or collectivist, but they point to issues where we were both wrong, so maybe we are wrong about the big picture, so that's the question i am asking:  if we found out we were wrong would we change our plans or would we stick with what we originally believed, just because?

I don't like these anti Trumpists (this seems to be the word that is most commonly used to describe this vile tribe.  We even have to invent a new word for him.) trying to disrupt Trump rallies.  One, I don't like it in principle, let everyone speak, we are adults and can evaluate what they say.  Two, I think that it just helps the Trumpists' cause, they enjoy seeing these scraggly protesters getting the bum's rush.  You know it just occurs top me now, that if I was leading an anti Trump squad I would insist that they all dress up in business attire. 

On the other hand the way the Trumpists beat up on these guys and the way that Trump himself eggs them on probably hurts the Trump side.  Well maybe it helps him a bit in the primaries, but come the general election when he has to face the country this has got to hurt.