Venus and Mars

Remember the book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”??

I have a new one…

”Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Venus.”

The original book was written about how there are innate differences that come genetically, and some That are socially learned early on – depending on which sex a person is.    If I remember right, the book basically said ‘it’s just the way it is and you can’t change it.”   The book also says that because of the differences the two will never fully understand each other.

Men have attributes that females love, but they also have some that are very annoying.   Women also have attributes that males find awesome, but they can’t figure out some other ones.   The two sexes think differently. They feel differently.   They behave differently.

Well, it seems these days this can be said for Republicans and Democrats.

Are they just ‘born that way’?   Can they change?    Do they even want to change!??   I don’t think they can or want to change.   Okay, you occasionally hear about someone changing their political party but it’s a very rare thing.  It’s not normal to think outside the party box.  Yes, you were born that way.   And,  it’s not because you really just don’t want to change… it’s because you truly like being a Republican or a Democrat.   You believe it is who you are.

In the past the political parties opposing each other was thought normal, and what our country was all about from it’s birth.  It was how it was founded.  You know:   Two heads are better than one.   Two points of view will bring a better compromise.   Two types of beliefs in discussion will bring America to a better tomorrow.

Lately, and we can argue when it started happening, the Republicans and the Democrats have been unable to understand each other – at all.   And, not only do they not understand each other, like a bad married couple, they like to “one up ‘’ each other.   They like to  say mean things – for effect.  Rough, biting language.  They purposely hurt each other.    They know each other’s sensitive subjects.

As with men and women in a relationship, they come to it with knowledge learned how to act in a marriage  – mostly from their parents.   Did the parents show love to each other?  Did they discuss family issues and work out an agreeable solution? Did they treat each other with respect?  Did they work together for a happy future?

Sometimes Reps and Dems fight like they are in a bad marriage.

I am a Democrat.   I admit it  – in fact I proudly admit it.   I felt I connected with the Dem’s party from my college years on, and I have not wavered.  I learned back then how the two parties worked,  who led them, what issues were important to them, how they saw solutions for the people of our country. I watched the two conventions each summer of election years.  I followed the news – because I worked in a TV and radio building.  I considered myself aware of what was happening – even back then in college.    I liked how the Dems wanted to use tax money to give people a hand up. I felt that they were a party of inclusion.  As a young person I felt that they too were young and ‘with it’ and hopeful about the future.    I felt as a Christian I could follow them and not let God down.  I believe that what God wants of us more closely matches to what the Dems want to do for all Americans.  No, I have never changed my mind.    I have always felt I was a Democrat in my bones.      Saying that I know there are mistakes made in the party, and that some people in it  are too self-centered, and only in it for the glory – for power.   But, when it comes down to the core of the party, I am one of them.

I know there are Republicans who feel the same way about their party.

I don’t get them.    They don’t get me.

Mars – Venus.

Here’s a weird thought:    Look at the solar system.    Earth has Venus on one side of it, and Mars is on the other – as all the planets spin around the sun.   All the planets stay in line, they circle the sun, and they keep the solar system going.   They don’t cross paths, and  they don’t look or act alike.

Can we see the ‘universal’ picture in this?    Can we realize how we have to work together even though we are so innately different?    Can we do it?     Do we want to do it?

Hmmmm.    I’m not sure we can.