It’s taken me most of my life–and things can change–but I’ve finally gotten an understanding of our politically parties. Just the parties, by the way, not the fanatics who join them.

Republicans: these people believe in the American Dream, Capitalist Economies, and Laissez-Faire government. These are all wonderful concepts in theory, but when applied to the large, multi-national, multi-religious polyglot of American Society these beliefs turn into “I’ve got mine and want to keep it. Go away. And the less government, the better.” We’ll call this GMGA. (Got Mine Go Away)

GMGA is also not so bad a way of life but…

The Capitalist Economy needs winners and losers to make the system work. Ideally, the losers should make up a smaller per cent of the population than the winners. But in modern reality, the winners make up a small percent of the population while losers overwhelm the economic landscape. This is not opinion. It is fact. When someone builds a billion dollar treasure chest each dollar did not come from thin air, or a tree. It came from the pockets of the losers. But even then, if a billion people lost a dollar to a billionaire, things might be okay. But our economy has massive Winners, and they have created massive amounts of losers.

So the Republican embrace of GMGA has a huge problem in real life: what do the winners do with all the losers? Ignore them?

Democrats: these people actually believe in the same American Dream, the same Capitalist Economy, and have the same NATURAL predisposition to Laissez-Faire government. Trust me, they do.

So why do they oppose each other and fight all the time? Besides the human urge for power.

Democrats differ from Republicans only in the Democratic attitude toward the losers. GMGA Republicans could care less about losers, ( ask Donald Trump) while Democrats want some “moral power” to help the losers live at least a decent life. That moral power is government. There is a moral element to this discussion because of Jesus Christ, the poor, wandering, New Testament prophet who eschewed GMGA and told everyone to follow the Golden Rule, sort of. In light of Jesus’ teachings, how can a Capitalist economy let GMGA happen and ignore losers? Is the Stairway to Heaven really lined with gold?

Too many losers in a society leads to societal disruptions that are exacerbated by a small government that does nothing to help. Drug abuse, poor educational outcomes, lack of respect for the law, etc.

So, to fix our societal problems we need to “readjust” the Capitalist system to produce more winners (and less losers), or elect Democratic politicians who will increase the size of government to make sure too many losers do not make the society collapse. Sadly, the GMGA policies of cutting taxes, reducing government, and relaxing regulations benefits the Winners at the expense of the losers.

But is there really any effective way to regulate greed? Human nature? Maybe larger governments won’t really help. And do you think any Winners care about climate change?

We will all find out soon, enough.

And, yes, this is a simplification of a more complex problem. Dinner is ready.