What a truly bizarre response. You are aware that these “other parties” you speak of are neither tolerant nor liberal in any genuine sense I hope. Perhaps the reason conservatism has been over represented these past 20 years is again, by design. The popular “left” politics in America are a farce and completely immaterial. They are merely a lacquer over the same underlying core values that drive all politics in the country. Just running off of recent memory: the opportunity to codify reproductive rights with federal legislation has been present since the docket for SCOTUS was announced nearly a year ago but completely ignored, the party has allowed itself to be held hostage by at least two of its own at the risk of not passing much needed laws to bend the curve of climate change, we have been put on a path toward nuclear war (the last two atom bomb were also dropped by dems, so go figure), the party continues to endorse placing migrant children in cages at the border, drops bombs on Yemen and Syria killing innocent civilians in the process, allows Guantanamo to stay open, and refuses to pass any kind of legislation to bring wealth inequality under control. None of this is tolerant nor does it represent changing in any way, unless you consider change to mean killing innocent people for no good reason. Allow me to quote the current sitting president, said to a group of campaign donors during the lead-up to the election: “Nothing will fundamentally change.” And, you will be surprised to find out, nothing has fundamentally changed.
Maursault|3 years ago
This is an overreaction, but why not more when you had the chance. Allow me to participate similarly by asking, Why not naturally amplify such pince-nez takenabackedness one-step beyond it's fundamental exaggeration to the fabulous ends of beyond possible hyperbole and add the exclamation point? You were right there! REQ. TIA
For the most part, I feel your pain. But I see it as, for the most part, a bunch of imperfect people trying to do their best to do what they believe is right for everyone, upholding the Constitution and integrating modern complex social issues, labor, defense, etc., the country, to roll with the work of it, sometimes screwing up, but mostly being tripped by the vastly over-represented minority party that tell such near instantly and verifiably obvious lies to justify their agenda and get what they want, whether legislative roadblocks for the opposition, roadblocks to voting for voting groups that don't vote for them, while all of their major successes are astoundingly obviously ill-gotten by quasi-legal maneuvering, and by the numbers, sir, by the numbers alone, is not remotely representative of the needs or wants or best interests of 99% of the voting politic, citizens and residents of the United States, and boldly in plain site on all media refuse to abide by the letter or the spirit of the Constitution or the laws of the US, nor the laws of common decency, doing so not only without honor, but without even a shred, not even a shred of decency.
Among the top 1% (who are the only people who should rationally even be voting Republican), those in that small group who are actually Republicans and politically powerful are shitting on the American people while claiming to be inclusive of the American People. Gumming up the gears of honest government executed by a staff with integrity is not remotely what the Founders intended, and anyone that believes otherwise is an anarchist, which is really what the Republican members of the 1% are... they'd be perfectly satisfied if they didn't have to deal with government oversight, regulation and taxes, and could just exploit Americans for profit unfettered by law.
But this is just my vaguest impression of what's happening and has been happening in America for more than a few decades at least. One side is like Mr. Magoo, the other is shady as shit. Brilliantly but wickedly, stupid nanny issues (like gun or abortion) are used to distract otherwise rational voters into ignoring their own personal economic interests. It really isn't debatable what party a married father of two earning $32K should be voting for, and it is hurting America that so many like him are not operating in their personal economic interests, as the Framers of the regulated capitalistic economy intended, and it is really messing things up for... everyone but the rich, especially the uber wealthy. It should be a lot less expensive and easier for all the other Americans, the 99%, to live and breathe in America.