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I'm not really into politics
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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When your choices are Democrat or Republican, it makes sense.
I know you won't accept this. But I want to say it anyway, on the off chance that it lights some light bulb in your brain.
Not seeing a difference between Democrat and Republican is a privilege. It means that you are equally affected by both of their policies. Not everyone has that luxury.
If you could spend just 5 minutes considering those who are negatively impacted more by one of those parties, it should hopefully be clear that not voting hurts those people.
That's everyone's favorite aspect of Democratic Party politics: the finger wagging.
My parents are eighty years old and drive for DoorDash, because if they don't, this country will gladly render them homeless. This is true whether Democrats or Republicans are in charge.
Maybe save your sermon and support candidates that actually demonstrate some actual intent to change things. Democrats' last presidential candidate said publicly they wouldn't do anything different, and a lot of struggling people heard that.
Ah there it is... Complete lack of empathy, and only capable of understanding an issue when it affects them or their family directly.
Too bad your parents aren't trans. Maybe then you'd care.
Does the US really not have any other political parties? Is there some sort of rule that says that there can only be two political parties.
I don't understand how there can be so much dissatisfaction with the current options, and that dissatisfaction has existed for so long, and yet there are been no other parties formed to take advantage of that displeasure and offer themselves as an alternative.
It's basically a mathematical consequence of First Past the Post voting system. Until we get Ranked Choice Voting or similar, we will always only have the 2 parties. And since we need at least one of those parties to support a new voting system, I'm not holding my breath to see a sweeping change there. Happily, a couple states have embraced Ranked Choice Voting, so maybe a change can occur in time.
We do, but they've been institutionally ostracized since the 90's, and very few people vote for them. The two ruling parties have the backing of the billionaire class and the national news media, so likely many aren't even aware of other options to begin with.
No, but I think the issue lies with their system of government. As a presidential republic they don't have parliamentary government where parties enter coalitions to form the executive, so smaller parties have no good way to get established and share executive power and responsibility while growing.
Couple that with the voting system which also favours the trend to only two parties, and there you have the mess.
PS: They have the Green Party and the Libertarian Party, but they remain at the fringe and largely irrelevant. No seats for either of them.
It takes time to grow a new party. With first past the post voting there is no time to do that in. Since any new party will take voters from the party you allign more with and guarantee the party you align less with wins. And none of the 2 major parties are interested in changing to a system that would give themselfs less power. Those poor people over there are stuck with psycopatic fasistic party that is afraid of everything and everyone, and a megalomanic ignorant party that degrades into in-fighting any time they have any power.
So, in your mind AOC and Trump are exactly the same person?
No. AOC and Trump are outliers on either end of the spectrum.
But as a whole the difference between how Democratics and Republicans do politics is nothing more they semantics.
Lobby money, bribery, insider trading, sexual scandal political controversy work just the same on either side of the aisle.
So, you find the outlier you like and help them.
Agreed. If and when AOC runs for president she has my vote.
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They're the worst candidates from either direction lol