Originally Posted by fogelbise
Now from this thread...
Though there are some similarities, there are many significant differences between these two political parties. One side generally supports women's reproductive rights, while the other generally doesn't. One generally supports tax cuts for the rich and the other generally doesn't. One pushed for medical insurance for the general public and got it while the other side is fighting to overturn it (Obamacare). One side pushes for policies to reduce global warming and the other side is especially beholden to energy companies and plays dumb saying either that there isn't global warning or that they don't know if there is global warming. Though some go further: "Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), author of the book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, is most likely going to become chairman of Environment and Public Works Committee." He also said "My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”
Interesting chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0/CO2-Temp.png
My position is that people should keep researching the issues and candidates and voting at least until you are able to make real change some other way.
Democrats and Republicans do a lot of arguing about tax cuts, but where they want tax rates to be aren't that far apart, at least not for the politicians. There aren't too many Republicans in office pushing to make abortion illegal. Both parties support environmental measures but disagree on the extents to which they should be made. Republicans in Congress have proposed medical insurance plans that were not exactly like Obamacare.
Being a Libertarian, watching Republicans and Democrats in office argue about politics is like being an atheist and watching Catholics and Baptists argue about religion. Both major parties love big government. They just disagree on how big it should in the midst of its bigness. Both parties support the war on drugs, foreign military interventionism, extreme social program bureaucracy, government spying, the Patriot Act, the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA, warrantless searches of automobiles, property seizure before trial, DUI checkpoints, police militarization, the prospect of martial law, taxing income, and the Federal Reserve. They don't seem that different to me.
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