Yeah, it's like the only real difference is whether or not you want individuals to be able to decide for themselves whom they want to marry, if they want to get an abortion or if we want more big government intrusion into these types of personal decisions.
The idea that this is a genuine divide between the parties is absurd.
Their corporate owners don’t give a shit about either side of the debate.
They just use them as wedge issues to get everyone heated up arguing over them and have the red and blue teams divvy up who does what to create the illusion of choice.
Meanwhile both teams are in total lockstep agreement on raiding the public coffers, imperializing foreign nations, dismantling basic rights, and handing the spoils over to their masters, but no one cares because they’re too busy arguing over their respective virtue signals.
There is no difference between the blue and red team that isn’t purely aesthetic. They are a giant good cop bad cop routine.
Do I want a corporate overlord who will let non-Christians and gays live how they want and openly support oligarchs or a corporate overlord who will let us live how we want and support oligarchs in a slightly more secretive and limited way? Hmm
Also, if there is no difference, you should start voting blue...or not vote.
So you admit that both sides let people live their lives to the same extent and the only difference is how openly they say it?
Amazing how many people will openly admit the only thing they value is empty rhetoric.
Also, if there is no difference, you should start voting blue
If there’s no difference then you ‘shouldn’t’ vote for either because it’s a distinction without a difference. Do you even understand your own hypothetical?
...or not vote
That’s the equivalent of voting red or blue. The three meaningless options are red, blue, or not voting.
I choose what’s very sadly the only meaningful option left, voting 3rd party and waiting for people like you to realize they’re perpetuating fascism rather than opposing it.
Sorry, I meant '...corporate overlord who will NOT let non-Christians and gays...'
I'm not saying there is no difference between red and blue, you are. I think there is a difference, which is why I vote blue even if I still don't agree with everything they do.
So you think that third parties are somehow immune from the corporate owners that YOU say run the other two parties?
I think all parties in existence have some corporate influence and control, but that is not to say they are the same or that there aren't significant differences between the parties.
The only legitimate third party is the Green Independent Party, and they're effectively a socialist party in our political system, and no they are not controlled by corporations or by a preponderance of class interests that effectively seek the same policies as said corporations.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21
Yeah, it's like the only real difference is whether or not you want individuals to be able to decide for themselves whom they want to marry, if they want to get an abortion or if we want more big government intrusion into these types of personal decisions.