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“Left” and “right” is horribly reductive. I don’t know a single person who agrees with everything thrown into those simplistic buckets. Take even the Supreme C
by tyre 5y ago
“Left” and “right” is horribly reductive. I don’t know a single person who agrees with everything thrown into those simplistic buckets.
Take even the Supreme Court. Multiple “right” judges voted to uphold the ACA and abortion restrictions; things that would certainly be top on the list of “left vs. right”.
Pay attention to the specific issues.
- Spivak 5y agoIn principle I agree with this but you have to have a certain baseline level of privilege yo even get the choice of choosing D/R in the US. If you’re a minority or marginalized group [1] you’re basically stuck huddling around the Democrats regardless of how you think of their broader views. I’m a super liberal person so it works out for me accidentally but I have libertarian friends who would for sure vote Republican if it wasn’t for baseline existence issues like BLM or gay marriage. Like all actual policy discussions happen within parties because of this. It’s easier to get the Democrats to be a little more conservative than get Republicans to support trans healthcare. [1] in the colloquial usage don’t @ me with X is 49% of the population
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoI agree with you but I wouldn’t have used the supreme court as an example. The justices are supposed to decide whether a law is constitutional, not whether they agree with it—at least in theory, and they try to keep up some semblance of appearances. A lot of the ACA arguments the court heard were incredibly stupid. And they still have struck down parts of the law.