There's a tendency in modern politics to treat political parties as monolithic structures.  This tendency is more noticeable on the Left than on the Right, but both sides indulge in it more than they should. The reality is, political parties are anything but monolithic, but given the limitations of human language, this kind of verbal shorthand is impossible to avoid.  The terms "Left" and "Right" are themselves monolithic in nature, assuming as they do that everyone covered by them is essentially the same. The Left is particularly fond of doing this, painting everyone on the Right with a broad brush and treating all of us as bigoted, fascist, intolerant bitter clingers who hate everyone and want to rule the world with an iron fist.  The fact that it's not true is completely irrelevant to leftists. Those of us who fall under the monolithic umbrella of the "Right" know that those on the "Left"...(Read Full Article)