Do political parties exist to advance causes or do causes exist to advance political parties? A lot of the debates about the Democratic party basically come down to this divide.
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The United States only has a limited role in solving that. So it's not analogous. Regardless, that's one of the many reasons why it's important to actually govern. So you can take action on issues of importance.
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But in order to gain power, as you said earlier, you can't stake out positions that lead to meaningful change. In which case, what's the point of governing? Is it just to preserve the phoney baloney jobs of a gerontocracy?
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