Republican primary voters most popular issues: This is the way
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I'm a pro Union, pro Universal Health Care, pro livable Wages for workers left leaning independent and I'd tick most of those boxes.
The Democrat/Republican dichotomy is a lie to keep us distracted, most reasonable people want border security, keeping young children safe from sexualization, a stop to senseless wars and reining in out of control three letter agencies.
You say that but then go on to list several issues on which the parties have very significant policy differences. If the Republicans held all the power things would be very, very different on those issues than if Democrats held it. That's no false dichotomy.
Now, I suppose what you're trying to get at is that there are some similar pathological aspects to both parties, for example the #1 issue for either party is preserving that party's political power by whatever means necessary. I'd love to see those issues addressed with things like campaign finance reform, more term limits, and getting rid of the asinine winner take all voting system we have, for example.
But don't spin those common problems up into something like 'the parties are the same'. They are not. Not even close. Their policies are wildly different, as is there voter base. You do yourself and others a disservice when you suggest they are very similar.
That is not what I meant when I said false dichotomy.
What I meant is the false choice that you must choose between the two factions of the UniParty.
Most elections I dislike BOTH parties, and they are BOTH invested in us not having a different viable choice.
Yes, I agree that both parties are fundamentally invested in the perpetuation of the two party system. And yeah, I do think that's bad for America as we're often left with a couple of crappy candidates to choose from. We desperately need something like proportional voting.
That said, just because both parties agree on this particular bad policy hardly makes them a Uniparty. Go and look at their platforms. Vastly different. Go and look at the congressional voting records. Vastly different, and usually along party lines.
Hell, just contrast the current administration with the previous one. Very, VERY different priorities and very VERY different impacts on your liberty and the eventual fate of this country.