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> Not liberal enough to vote D, and not conservative enough to vote R. Is COVID a hoax? "Can't rightly say!" Does the climate emergency exist? "Some people s
by TomSwirly 5y ago
> Not liberal enough to vote D, and not conservative enough to vote R.
Is COVID a hoax? "Can't rightly say!"
Does the climate emergency exist? "Some people say otherwise, it's none of my business."
Should American women be allowed abortions? "I really have no opinion."
Is Trump a delusional psychopath? "Can't see any difference between him and Biden!"
Do these people really exist?
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I moved to Europe in 2016, and America seems increasingly weird to me.
Here you have these two right-wing parties already, and you're like, "No, I need another right-wing party".
Here it is over a year and a half into the worst pandemic in living memory, and no one's even talking about giving people medical care, something the rest of the developed world has had for generations.
Both parties compete to see who will increase the military budget faster and who will suck up to Wall Street harder.
Sure, the Democrats are sane and have flashes of competence; the Republicans are delusional raving loonies who lie every chance they can get and only have a tenuous grasp on reality. Big difference. But still, not so much range.
- silisili 5y agoI have little interest in debating politics, or being told how to vote, but I just wanted to reply to explain it's not like that here. Yes, some crazies exist on both sides. Perhaps more on the R side, probably, but I don't have the numbers. The majority of both sides, yes even those scary evil republicans you speak of, are reasonable people. To paint one side by their best people, and another by their worst, is not an argument in good faith. I'm sorry whatever media you've consumed has misled you a bit.