The value of differing ideas

<p>     In light of the election and the staggaring loss of the republicans a lot of people on the left are spiking the flootball and saying that the republicans are going to go away and never come back.  I understand the giddy victory feeling, honestly I do.  I mean because of the election, we wont have a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe vs Wade, and Obamacare will not be repealed and a bunch of other awesome things that help our society are going to happen or keep happeneing.  But because these   good things happened, and any innumeral amount of bad things now will not happen, is not reason or cause to wish the entire republican party away.  Why on earth would I say this, I am sure you are asking.  I mean, didn't these guys say that pregnancies from rape were gods plan?  and that If there was a 'legitinate rape' women could magically not get pregnant, and that 47 percent of the country were hopeless slackers that couldnt or wouldnt take responsiblility for their lives?  How could you not want that to go away.  </p></p>
   <p>    Well, yes they did say all those things, and probably worse.  I want the Republicans to stay around because if there is one thing that any party, or government needs, critically, and absulutely needs, to effectivelly govern, it is a strong and reasoned opposition.  Right now the Republicans are neither strong nor reasoned, and as far as reasoned is concerned, have not been for some time.  The republicans need to get the 'crazy' out of thier ranks, they need to stop hating and blaming the electorate for what they perceive as moral failings, and they need to embrace differing opinions opn what conservatism means so that they can atrract a brader range of supporters.  </p></p>
<p>      It is then that they can present a saner opposition to the democratic government and bring well reasoned and sensical conservative ideas to the table that more people can get behind.  The country can only benefit.  When one party is in control and not effectively opposed there tends to develop and echo chamber where only one line of thinking, and one set of ideas is found to be acceptable and all others are marginalized.  This doesnt do anyone any good.   Ina country as diverse as ours, all ideas must be present in government, all right protected and all peoples cared for.  An Echo-chamber government, whether Democratic or Republican, is notoriously bad at this.  The Democrats are strengthened by a strong, reasonable Republican Party.  The reverse is also true.  </p></p>
<p>     Differing ideas, when sane, can provide us with a more complete, and more representative government.  The more people a government represents the more effective it will be.  Ther eis no group in this country that is not deserving of representation in government, not even the one percent.  The government needs to work for ALL people and to do that, it needs the Republican party.  But to be relevant, the Republican Party needs to get the insanity out of its veins and embrace the wider nation so that it can provide a more reasoned opposition and offer better representation to the people.  </p></p>
<p>    Just because our ideals won the day on election day we musnt trick ourselves into thinking that there are no other worthwhile ideals out there.  Just because our ideas are a majority doesnt mean that other ideas, different ideas, have no value.  All are welcome at the table of government, and all values, all ideas, all ideals have merit and are worth hearing.  We must never want for there to be no opposition because it is only through opposition that we become stronger.  Rather we should wish that our opponents be strong, but beatable.</p></p>