Jealous vs Snobbery: The True Battle Between the Parties

In my view, this is the tale (albeit extremely simplified) of the war between Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans are jealous of Democrats, because Democrats make them feel bad about themselves.  They make them feel like they're not as smart, not as educated, not as worldly.  That's why they're quick to name Democrats "elitist" and other such names, as if Democrats think they're so much better.  Now Democrats might not really feel this way, but no matter.  Republicans think they do, and that's what matters.

Because, in reality, it is not the hatred that another feels for us that makes us hate them, it is the hatred that we feel toward ourselves that makes us hate them.  And if we feel in some way inferior to someone, we use other people as scapegoats for that feeling and as our own personal punching bags.  Even if that person doesn't do anything directly to harm us than just live their life and be themself, we'll hate them because their life, their accomplishments and personal assets make us feel bad about ourselves.  And that's enough.  Even if that someone might be trying to do us some good, to help us be better, if we see that that messenger comes in a package where they seem perfectly ideal, better than us -- like Obama, perhaps, -- no matter what they want to do for us, we will say, "No thanks!"  We will actually hate them for trying to help us, like they think they're so much better than us, that they think they know what's better for us.  Our ego would rather allow us to die than to feel badly about ourselves.

Democrats, on the other hand, are snobs.  They think that Republicans are dumb to believe what they do.  This is because Democrats don't understand Republicans, and so they dismiss their ideas as coming from a place of irrationality and emotion, rather than reason and intelligence.  Now, this might not be true, but it doesn't matter, because Democrats believe this.  And then they wonder why it is that Republicans hate them so much.

Democrats don't realize that this feeling of elitism, of thinking they know better, and are better, is felt by the other side.  They think only that they feel this and that the other side doesn't know this, and when they are called elitists, they wonder why.  But the truth is, they do feel that they are better.  They just don't realize that the other side sees that they feel this, or they don't understand why the other side cares that they feel this.  After all, who cares what they think?  Certainly not the other side, right?  But the other side is quick to feel inferior, and so quick to hate anyone who helps them in feeling that way, intentional or not.

And so this, really, is the battle between the parties:  a battle between egos (which is basically like all other battles in all the world).  It's just that in this one, one side cares too much about what the other side thinks of them, and the other side cares too little about what the other side thinks.