Obama was against LGBTQ rights until he knew the SCOTUS was about to make gay marriage legal. And SCOTUS did it with a conservative majority, not him or the Democrats.
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Meaningful change will continue to be out of our grasp. That's because our politics needs MORE participation, not less. Telling everyone the system is hopelessly broken just convinces them to stay home and rot.
Your mistake, then, is believing the two major parties are ideological entities. They aren’t. Since those two parties became the dominant pair, they have switched sides - conservative and progressive - at least 3 times. Now, they’re both conservative.
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The parties exist to gain and maintain power and money. The ideologies they choose is based completely on what they think will help them win, not what’s right or wrong.
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And that's called politics. Voters aren't so naive. There is a phrase called "street heat". The voters must apply constant pressure to keep their politicians true to their word, or throw them out. That means real, informed engagement, not "they're all the same, so f*ck it".
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I choose to vote for a candidate based on the policy positions they espouse. Whichever has a majority of positions I agree with, I vote for. If they disappoint me, I vote against them.
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Who’s the last Democrat you supported, then voted for the Republican alternative the next time?
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