I was driving around on vacation years ago when I heard this on NPR.
About twelve percent of voters are oblivious to the fact that there are political differences. They don't know that different people have different interests or different political views. They think everyone believes exactly the same things they do and they think that political debates or disagreements are "bickering".
"Why don't they stop bickering and just do what everybody wants!" they say.
The percentage who think this was the same percentage who voted for Ross Perot.
I thought maybe these idiots would wise up what with Trump in power, but I just saw one of them on the news last night. He said he voted for Trump because there's too much arguing and he just wants someone who'll get things done. He doesn't care WHAT he "gets done" because he assumes everyone wants the same thing.
Politicians can rake in twelve percent of the vote by refusing to debate.
Remember the debate between Joseph Lieberman and Dick Cheney? People were deeply moved at how polite they were. It was almost as if they didn't disagree on anything at all. Four years later, Lieberman campaigned for Bush's re-election. They got along so well in the debate because they were horrible, horrible people who had no actual differences.
Now we have Biden who brags about how well he got along with even the most vile racists in the Senate, and progressives are trying to point out that there's a reason for this.
Jeffrey St Clair wrote in Counterpunch:
Can anyone cite one issue where Biden is more progressive than Hillary Clinton? What kind of institutional laughing gas have the Democrats been inhaling to convince themselves that another center-right candidate with even less rhetorical skills than HRC could defeat Trump?
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