Basic Sanity is Still a Goal (*Update)

When you hear people say there is a huge gap separating the two major political parties nowadays, it's really quite the understatement. Quite possibly it may be all together inaccurate to say such a thing. What we have is not ideological separation or even an ideal separation, it's a basic sanity separation.

Being able to communicate with anyone requires a simple yet basic understanding of certain knowledgeable attainments. If two people speak different languages they are incomprehensible to each other. The same is true if people have a completely different set of realistic perceptions on a subject matter. Even if two people speak the same language if they don't agree on the most basic understanding of the conversation they aren't going to get very far. And that's what we have happening today in our political discourse.

It's not that people have to agree on the solution or even the problem. But they have to agree on the existence of the tangibles involved. That's where the breakdown is occurring. That's where the notion of "basic sanity" becomes essential to discussion.

Reaching some limit of a basic sanity in this country so we can actually agree to discuss the merits rather than the conspiracy theories is still a goal yet so far unattainable.

*Update:

For a perfect example of what I mean check out this comment thread.  Billy, Shanks, Guest, Rachel, and now Kristen, or whatever multiple personality he's suffering from at the moment, no doubt lives in a parallel universe.  It's a universe where the Bush tax cuts did not cause deficits, where we've spent more on education than Iraq, (which is absurd), and where Bush was a popular president.  You can't have a conversation about substantive policies that will benefit this country with people who refuse reality.  You just can't do it.  You can't just make stuff up and pretend Glenn Beck is an actual political contributor to this country and expect to get things done. There has to come a time when basic sanity is reached.  And we're no where near that right now.