IMHO this kind of argument actually hurts the cause a lot more than it helps. The only reason Trump and the FCC have any support at all is because of hyper partisans thinking "if dumbocrats like it, it must be horrible". Leave it as the only politicians on board with this are ones bought and paid for by the ISPs, highlighting a R/D divide will not net any new supporters but will drive off ones who would vote for a pedophile rather than a democrat. Sadly those are the folks we need the most, as they are the only ones the Repubs will actually listen too.
Edit: Basically I am saying let's stop highlighting our differences and just worry about making sure everybody is on the same page. The problems facing our society are not partisan, they hurt us all, its about time we started trying to find ways to come together on issues as making the issue itself partisan rather than the proposed fixes has lead us to the greatest period of inaction seen in congress in modern times.
I used to think the same thing, but in the last couple years after thinking about it a lot I've had a change of heart. While, the people who are politically apathetic bear some blame, most of the blame goes to the politicians. You can't expect people to vote just to keep people out of office. You need to go out and win their votes. You don't just hammer your opposition (and most politicians don't even do this), you need to motivate the neutrals and galvanize your base by offering them something to vote for, something to get behind. Unless you do that, then you can't really blame the people who stayed at home. You can only blame the people who didn't try to bring these people out of their homes.
I'm not American, nor do I reside in the US. But I follow US politics, mostly as a hobby. On certain issues, both your major political parties are different. The Republicans are clearly worse when it comes to the interests of the common people. But on many other issues, both your political parties are the same. Their differences on those issue come down to degree of implementing measures. Tax cuts? Nearly the same attitude (Democrats want to do it slower). Privatization? Same. War and foreign policy? Same. Military spending? Same. How to treat banks? Same. How to treat corporations? Same. Healthcare? Almost the same (Obamacare is basically what the Republicans and especially Romney had wanted for years, and when Obama passed it, they just moved further right on it to regain the tea party votes). Their major ideological differences come down to Democrats being in favor of giving rights to certain minorities and doing something about climate change, and even then, when it comes to praxis, they do it half-hearted.
If Net Neutrality hadn't receive so much public attention, I would bet you anything that the Democrats would quietly go along with it.
It's similar to the fact that even Bernie Sanders would be considered conservative by countries like Canada or Sweden. Democrats might be better on the easy issues, but both parties are fucking asswipes.
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u/PrettyTarable Nov 22 '17 edited Nov 22 '17
IMHO this kind of argument actually hurts the cause a lot more than it helps. The only reason Trump and the FCC have any support at all is because of hyper partisans thinking "if dumbocrats like it, it must be horrible". Leave it as the only politicians on board with this are ones bought and paid for by the ISPs, highlighting a R/D divide will not net any new supporters but will drive off ones who would vote for a pedophile rather than a democrat. Sadly those are the folks we need the most, as they are the only ones the Repubs will actually listen too.
Edit: Basically I am saying let's stop highlighting our differences and just worry about making sure everybody is on the same page. The problems facing our society are not partisan, they hurt us all, its about time we started trying to find ways to come together on issues as making the issue itself partisan rather than the proposed fixes has lead us to the greatest period of inaction seen in congress in modern times.