What am I? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent?

[Ryantology]

Given what I've seen, his view is that republicans are very, very lousy.

I have not witnessed him claiming that the democrats are blameless. Only that they are lesser of the two evils, whereas the Republicans are the greater of the two evils.

Precisely so, and this is rather the point. I'm not a one-issue voter. I have opinions on a wide variety of matters, and I choose the party which most closely aligns with them. Do Democrats vote to do things like start wars and attack other countries? Yeah. Do they occasionally vote as if they were conservatives, caring more about the ledger than whether people starve? Sadly, yeah. It happens a lot more than I would like.

But, the Republicans do it far more often and in far worse proportions. Democrats aren't engaged in an internal struggle to see who is best at wrecking the government. They aren't the ones clamoring for a resumption of the Iraq clusterfuck. They aren't the ones, by and large, governing states in which food and health care are vigorously denied to their people who can't get it on their own. They're not the ones rooting for a maximum of deadly weaponry in the hands of citizens or armed rebellion against the government.

They're the lesser of two evils, and I feel that I do the most good for the most people, with my vote, by casting it for Democratic candidates (as long as they are sufficiently liberal). Even if Republicans had a stance on any single issue, no matter how important to me, that I really liked, it wouldn't be enough to cast a vote condemning other Americans to worse poverty and more violence. I vote for candidates that treat human life, in general, as sacred, not just the undeveloped variety in wombs. That deserves the title 'pro-life' more than you do, with the way you vote.