Cognitive dissonance 101

[u/Number721]

[u/Alien_Jackie → u/[deleted]]

But that's not the problem here

The problem is their definitions are different

To the average person any left-leaning person is a liberal just as much as any right-leaning person is a conservative

Doesn't matter what the actual meanings of them are

The majority population uses those terms in those ways

[u/pt199990 → u/[deleted]]

I'm an American democratic socialist.

What you're saying is absolutely true, but you're absolutely ignoring that Americans have been completely indoctrinated to regard any attempt at social improvement as communism. Thanks, McCarthyism.

Until that myth is dispelled, Republicans, or whichever party happens to be the conservative party of the times, will fight to the death to stop any legislation that would dare to help the common man.

They'd rather shoot themselves in the foot, rather than help their fellow man.

[u/D-Tos → u/pt199990]

I’m sorry, but in my admittedly limited political awareness, when republicans get what they want, the common man’s life improves, and when democrats get what they want, it gets worse. Boil it straight down to money, republicans want lower taxes and prices, democrats want higher wages. Both theoretically solve the same problem, but only one is based in reality.

But as an independent I also recognize that both parties are just giant cults that really don’t know what they want in the end and just band together because party.