Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
There are really only two viable parties here. There are still a few token others, like the CPUSA and the Greens, but they're pretty much irrelevant and just let the real ones fight their battles for them. I've been trying to pick one or the other for a while. The problem, though, is that they're more or less evenly split on the few issues I care about.
The GOP is against abortion, but they're for capital punishment. The Democrats are for amnesty for refugees of the drug wars, but they're pretty much for letting in anyone and everyone anyway. The GOP is about making your wealth through hard work and drive, but only because so many of them more or less worship Ayn Rand. The Democrats are for leveling the economic playing field, but only if wealth redistribution and discrimination is used to do it. The GOP talks so much about ensuring this nation's future, but they can't really do that when they set themselves up against science. The Democrats talk about as much about the same thing, but they can't really do that when they set everyone against each other through divisive identity politics. The GOP wants to reserve civil rights - like voting - for citizens, but then they approve of violating citizens' civil rights on the basis of things like race and religion. The Democrats oppose those excesses, but only because they want non-citizens to have the vote too since they're growing increasingly reliant on the votes of illegal immigrants, felons, and dead people to win elections. The GOP jailed my home state's last Democratic governor on transparently false charges and burned down the home of the lawyer who tried to investigate. The Democrats have this odd problem of appointing and being supported by people with awesome backgrounds in things like black supremacy and left wing terrorism. The GOP doesn't really seem all that diverse - I don't really see many openings for those who aren't rich white Christians. The Democrats love all diversity except diversity of opinion - gay, Latino, black, whatever, so long as you have the right opinions and nothing but the right opinions.
How did you pick your party? Why did you pick either one at all?
The GOP is against abortion, but they're for capital punishment. The Democrats are for amnesty for refugees of the drug wars, but they're pretty much for letting in anyone and everyone anyway. The GOP is about making your wealth through hard work and drive, but only because so many of them more or less worship Ayn Rand. The Democrats are for leveling the economic playing field, but only if wealth redistribution and discrimination is used to do it. The GOP talks so much about ensuring this nation's future, but they can't really do that when they set themselves up against science. The Democrats talk about as much about the same thing, but they can't really do that when they set everyone against each other through divisive identity politics. The GOP wants to reserve civil rights - like voting - for citizens, but then they approve of violating citizens' civil rights on the basis of things like race and religion. The Democrats oppose those excesses, but only because they want non-citizens to have the vote too since they're growing increasingly reliant on the votes of illegal immigrants, felons, and dead people to win elections. The GOP jailed my home state's last Democratic governor on transparently false charges and burned down the home of the lawyer who tried to investigate. The Democrats have this odd problem of appointing and being supported by people with awesome backgrounds in things like black supremacy and left wing terrorism. The GOP doesn't really seem all that diverse - I don't really see many openings for those who aren't rich white Christians. The Democrats love all diversity except diversity of opinion - gay, Latino, black, whatever, so long as you have the right opinions and nothing but the right opinions.
How did you pick your party? Why did you pick either one at all?
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