I used to always think they were the same, and to some level they ARE separate heads of the same beast...but, in the past couple years the separation of the PEOPLE couldn't be more obvious. Look at your average working-man family-man Red vs the average colored hair Blue (who would screech at me for even saying Man) and it's like day and night.

Hell, my distrust for the government had me leaning left if anything when I was growing up in the Bush Jr Era and there's many RINO today...but, it's certainly been a rude awakening for me in my few decades alive. Those I once would have sided with pushed me so far away I found myself on the opposite team. So, for that I thank them.