• secproto@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    One other note I wanted to make about republicans and democrats that may be more relevant. Because of how america has incidentally become a two party system, often times people may vote for parties they don’t wholly agree with. It would be different to make comments about conservatives, libertarians, communists, and the like. However you are making general statements about parties that have wildly different viewpoints within their own party. Just look at Bernie versus Biden. These voter basis have to be so broad because most other parties have virtually no effect on how the U.S. government is run, most voters have to vote for a party they might heavily disagree with. I’ve met republicans who hold many “democrat” opinions, but vote republican because the democrat party has a history of being anti gun. Leave generalizations of large groups to Nazis and white supremacists.

    • deeznutz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      The very fact that Manchin/Bernie and McCain/MTG share parties shows the two party system is an issue. Calling every democrat a commie and every Republican a Nazi is retarded.