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Every American voter should be on the same side here, but they aren't. Look, I agree with where you're coming from - there are certain things that are simply m
by geofft 6y ago
Every American voter should be on the same side here, but they aren't.
Look, I agree with where you're coming from - there are certain things that are simply matters of right and wrong and are not a matter of whether you're on Team Red or Team Blue. But the whole reason we have political parties is that it turns out we disagree, strongly, about what right and wrong are. It is a disservice to the cause you agree with and an insult to the seriousness of those you disagree with to say that such-and-such decision about how we run our country should be non-partisan instead of acknowledging the reality that it is.
It happens to be the case that for many things, like "Should we have elections or simply have hereditary rule" or "Should people be allowed to leave their religion" or "Should we invade our neighboring countries because we are the rightful owners of this continent" or "Should people be allowed to marry outside their race" or whatever, the two major parties, organizationally, do not disagree with each other. But those are and have been political debates in other times and in other places. Sometimes questions that you wouldn't expect to be political, like "Should people stay away from each other during a plague," become political.
If you believe in a particular answer to one of these questions, and one team agrees with you and the other doesn't, do not delude yourself into thinking that both teams agree with you merely because you think they should agree with you.