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Yep. Whenever I see "republicans and democrats are the same", I know I'm talking to someone not directly affected by the policy differences (so someone likely c
by shrimp_emoji 3y ago
Yep. Whenever I see "republicans and democrats are the same", I know I'm talking to someone not directly affected by the policy differences (so someone likely cis, white, straight, and/or middle-class or higher).
- tombert 3y agoI just think that "enlightened centrism" is sort of intellectually lazy at this point. Obviously you don't have to agree with everything that a side does, but I think it's extremely easy to just throw your hands up in the air and say "both sides are bad!" and then turn your brain off. It is the facsimile of an enlightened opinion, but you didn't actually do anything to earn it. There are plenty of things that the American left do/say that I don't agree with [1], but I don't think the logical conclusion of that is to just act like both sides are equally horrible. [1] For example, I fundamentally do not agree with the (at least one point) popular leftist opinion of decreasing military funding.
- ryandrake 3y ago"Both sides are bad" simply provides cover/defense for the side that's actually worse. There are degrees of badness and "both sides" ignores that degree.
- sublinear 3y agoI don't think you've ever lived in the south. Texas in particular is absolutely full of people who equally dislike the democrats and the republicans. There's a third situation: being directly affected by the stupid policies of both parties all the time.
- tombert 3y agoNot the person you're responding to, but I did grow up in the south (Florida) and lived in Texas for three years immediately afterward. My criticism about people equivocating democrats and republicans still stand.