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RE: Why Political Parties Mean Nothing
September 28, 2020 at 10:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2020 at 10:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If people can change their minds so that they buck party affiliations in response to issues important to them, then it stands to reason that political candidates can as well.
If party disloyalty is a value making metric, it seems as though you should be applauding them, not insisting that they are evil on account of doing what you would prescribe they do.
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RE: Why Political Parties Mean Nothing
September 28, 2020 at 10:53 am
Yes, the parties are just voting blocks much like "Christian" and "LGBTQ" these banners were created as rally points to focus power for use by THEM. The lizard overlords or the illuminati. Ok, really just people group together and with the realization that if you say Catholic you will entice many less people so you water that shit down to, "Um, if you can present intellectual assent to the idea that Christ was a thing you should listen to us and vote like us."
I've read the platforms of both political parties and they both sound like noble parties with the good of the people in their mind. How that platform is expressed though... yeesh on both counts!
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RE: Why Political Parties Mean Nothing
September 28, 2020 at 11:45 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2020 at 12:07 pm by The Architect Of Fate.)
1. Being a member of a party doesn't mean you support every member in the party as parties are free for anyone to join . The goals of the party are more important then who's in it .
2. Even evil bastards can have good positions and those good position can be abandoned with party affiliation
3. Hillary as bad as she is was apparently was way worst as a Republican . Trump was always a bastard but he at least support some good positions now he's fully embraced being a dick . Pence was a Democrat when the Democrats will still purging southern conservatives from their ranks. But he has embraced the dickery that is the Republican party .
So this whole argument fails
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RE: Why Political Parties Mean Nothing
September 28, 2020 at 12:09 pm
It’s long been a truism in UK politics that the chief difference between the two main parties is that the Conservatives want a massive military but don’t want to send it anywhere, while Labour want a small military but want to send it everywhere.
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RE: Why Political Parties Mean Nothing
September 28, 2020 at 3:06 pm
I find "party loyalty" to be an aberration from values. If Tjóðveldið politicians suddenly became a bag of dicks and had a bag of dicking political platform, I'd stop voting for my favorite politician in it.
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RE: Why Political Parties Mean Nothing
September 28, 2020 at 6:29 pm
Contrary to popular belief, not all politicians are bad. Some are dead.