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Originally Posted by hot_pastrami
- Many people are protective of their political party, akin to a religion or a sports team. Such a person's political party (and elected members of it) is incapable of doing any wrong, and is deserving of boundless loyalty and faith, regardless of the party's actions. To such a person, their party of choice is completely unaccountable for its actions, and the actions of its elected members.
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I <a href="http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~gvidas/photos/outsideralph.jpg">went</a> to a <a href="http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~gvidas/photos/ralph1.jpg">Nader</a> talk the other night, and he specifically compared politics to sports. But he went the other way with it, bemoaning the fact that people don't treat politics like sports; in his analogy, sports fans know the statistics, the strategies, and the individual role of each component part of the team and the support group (coach, manager, etc) thereof. They're willing to criticize the people who do poorly, while still maintaining faith in the team as a whole beyond the bounds of rational man. Most people don't spend that much time on politics.
Just thought I'd tangent a wee bit.