Below is my response (edited a bit) to an email from a friend. His email was a commentary on my piece here titled, "Republicans & Democrats - Time to Cowboy-Up". The name "Hartmann" below refers to Thom Hartmann, the pundit and author.
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You & Hartmann seem to have the premise that all Republicans are sociopaths, but maybe only a few Democrats are that. Really? You actually believe that everyone in an entire group is sociopathic? Please. Forgive me, but that's prejudice. In fact, it sounds very similar (not the same) to Nazis claiming that all Jews are deceitful, conniving, & filthy. Or, some Republicans claiming that all Democrats are totalitarian communists. All of the above is ridiculous.
You don't have to sell me on the egregious actions of Repub Administrations; I agree. That doesn't prove your premise that all Repubs are sociopaths. Neither does the study you mentioned some time ago about Right Wing folks having some sort of flaw in their brains. Here's another study that tends to suggest this whole thing is not as one-sided as you believe---
Perhaps you watched it the 1st time I sent it, but maybe your bias against Repubs prevented you from getting the point. I don't know. Jon Haidt studies the moral foundations of politics; he's a well respected psychologist. His study results are quite revealing. http://people.
Those of you who continue to pit one side against the other are making things more entrenched...worse, in my opinion. You and I apparently will never agree on this topic, so of what use is it to talk about it?
To put all people of a particular persuasion into one psychological/social basket is a huge mistake in my opinion. It causes big problems. Too many unwarranted assumptions, too much jumping to conclusions, too much prejudice. I've known some mighty fine people in my life; some were Repubs, some were Dems, some were Libertarians, and some were Socialists. I've never found each separate political group to be homogeneous in their beliefs or actions.
We humans seem to have an innate drive to divide up into groups/factions/teams and oppose one another. Too often that opposition winds up in violence... mainly thanks to propaganda. And each group firmly believes that it alone is "in the right"...for whatever reason. The "other" side is always "wrong". All that is probably why we'll wind up like every other species that had some degree of dominance on Earth---extinct.
None of the above is too much of a concern to me because, in my belief/faith system, this existence of ours is The Grand Illusion. As the old song goes, "... Life is but a dream.". And that's a good thing. 
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Not only my opinion. Be Well
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