Profiling for the Big Debate About Government's Role

 

By contrast, the typical Obama fans see themselves as (1) admirable, (3) conscientious, (5) complacent, and (8) sociable. Moore 's thumbnail descriptions here correspond respectively to Millon's (i) passive-independence, (iii) passive-ambivalence, (v) passive-detachment, and (viii) active-dependence.

 

In short, as I have profiled them here, the typical Reagan fans and the typical Obama fans are bipolar opposites. No wonder they have basically different views about the role of government.

 

Finally, I want to turn to the most important question in my estimate: Can our national debate between the typical Reagan fans and the typical Obama fans as I have profiled them respectively here possibly lead to anything but a sparring match and a standoff? For example, could our national debate in any way help at least some of the participants move toward learning how to access and embody one or more of the optimal forms of the archetypes of maturity that Moore discusses? If there are already enough Americans who embody one or more of the optimal forms, they should step forward in this debate, because their ability to embody and exemplify one or more of the optimal forms could serve as an animating force to help the rest of us learn how to access and embody one or more of the optimal forms.

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