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The freedoms that republicans care about is the freedom to deny gay people marriage, the freedom to purchase assault weapons before your brain fully matures and

• ben_w 4y ago
  I thought Democrats also cared about keeping the church out of the state? Which is also a restriction on the freedom of the teachers to get preachy, and I can easily imagine someone upset and demanding "I want the right to pray before each class"… not that I would sympathise with them: my memories of school include being annoyed by the mandatory religion, as my parents sent me to a Catholic school (in the UK, though IIRC in the UK even non-religious schools are currently required to have regular Christian-themed assemblies).
  • feet 4y ago
    Democrats only care as much as their corporate overlords pay them to care
    • ben_w 4y ago
      Are you putting both reds and blues in your personal outgroup?
      • feet 4y ago
        If I consider that none of them represent my views, ethics, and moral structure then yes. I do think that their actions do more harm than good. But the ingroup outgroups in this situation are those with money and power and those without. The political class represents money and power, nothing more and nothing less The political class provides legislation to their constituents, the donors with money, while claiming that they care about regular working class Americans but doing literally nothing to ever help them Republicans actively work to harm people through restrictive legislation and democrats inadvertently harm people through their careless and shitty legislation that on the surface sounds like it could help people but when you read the actual text its all bullshit carveouts for corporations to protect their exploitatively gained profits They're just con artists gaming the country for money, plain and simple. But that's what happens when your cultural ideology puts money and profit and "the economy" above the people that make up the society