Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Don't confuse partisanship with ideology. I'm highly ideological, not partisan at all. A party is simply a collection of varied ideological interests, grouped together to obtain political power in order to achieve their goals.

But going around telling the world that the fact that the parties fail at their aims not because they need reform, or because this country is too ideologically divided to enact purely one-sided solutions, but in fact because the parties don't actually want to achieve those aims..

Well, I know that is a comforting, simplifying idea to a lot of frustrated people. But it's simplicity is frankly unhelpful, because it ignores a much messier, more difficult reality. Until people grapple with the reality that politics is hard and always will be...

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.

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.

Who’s the last Democrat you supported, then voted for the Republican alternative the next time?

Wrong question. The question is, who is the last Democrat who was followed by a Republican who espoused the same ideological positions? Otherwise, what rational person just up and switches, when their beliefs are in such diametric opposition to the new candidate?