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I guess you got downvoted for both-sidesing it(Upvoted, btw :D)? I mean both parties do quite suck, even though I still think the GOP is actively harmful, while

I guess you got downvoted for both-sidesing it(Upvoted, btw :D)? I mean both parties do quite suck, even though I still think the GOP is actively harmful, while the Democratic party has good ideas that it fails to build on. The actual party policies only really diverge on social issues. Economic policy consensus has been corporatist since the Reagan years. The main difference is the democrats are willing to blast out the occasional one-off stimulus and the GOP is also willing to do that but a smaller one-off stimulus. I don't really see collectivism vs individualism as a left-right split. The religious conservative wing of the right is culturally collectivist, the catholic conservatives are also pretty economically collectivist. The liberal mainstream is highly culturally individualistic(well... within the boundaries of acceptable lib behavior). The left can be almost culturally atomistic, if you go into the disown your racist/homophobic relatives areas of the ideology.

AmericanChopper 5y ago
I made the distinction between dogma and policy because I don’t think the two are very strongly connected. I think there are localised outliers like California and Texas, where the ideological differences are more effectively implemented in policy and legislation. But generally speaking, I don’t think you get a substantially different government when one party is elected over the other. The dogma however is substantially different. It’s just that speaking differently doesn’t necessarily translate to acting differently. I think the reason I’m downvoted (and that my comments would generally meet disapproval in most contexts) is due to the nature of tribalist politics. A political tribalist believes that we are good and they are bad. If our policies fail it’s because of reasons other than our policies being bad, if their policies fail it’s because they were intentionally designed to cause harm. They are the ones behaving tribalistically, while we are open minded and accepting. A core element of the tribalistic psychology is that you and your team aren’t the ones perpetuating it. Tribalism is bad, and they are the source of it. It is an archetypal example of the fundamental attribution error, and a tribalistic conservative is just as likely to downvote you for suggesting that as a tribalistic liberal is.

AmericanChopper 5y ago

I made the distinction between dogma and policy because I don’t think the two are very strongly connected. I think there are localised outliers like California and Texas, where the ideological differences are more effectively implemented in policy and legislation. But generally speaking, I don’t think you get a substantially different government when one party is elected over the other. The dogma however is substantially different. It’s just that speaking differently doesn’t necessarily translate to acting differently. I think the reason I’m downvoted (and that my comments would generally meet disapproval in most contexts) is due to the nature of tribalist politics. A political tribalist believes that we are good and they are bad. If our policies fail it’s because of reasons other than our policies being bad, if their policies fail it’s because they were intentionally designed to cause harm. They are the ones behaving tribalistically, while we are open minded and accepting. A core element of the tribalistic psychology is that you and your team aren’t the ones perpetuating it. Tribalism is bad, and they are the source of it. It is an archetypal example of the fundamental attribution error, and a tribalistic conservative is just as likely to downvote you for suggesting that as a tribalistic liberal is.