From my perspective as an American, I find it difficult to reconcile these two statements:
“I want everyone to treat them equally and not discriminate against them”
“I’m kind of in a gray area”
In practice, there is no middle ground in American politics. You vote Republican, or you vote Democrat. This is most true in presidential elections but still generally true in state and even local elections throughout the country. The parties are pretty well aligned top to bottom. Conservative or liberal.
Like you, I want everybody to be treated equally. For me, there’s no gray area about it. I hate how little choice I have in politics, but this is the reality I live in, and this is the reality I have to vote in.
If you have a clear alignment to one party or the other, I wouldn’t call that a “gray area”. And if you don’t? If you don’t have a clear alignment to one or the other? In America? In the 2020s? When one party is very clearly, and very persistently violating that core value of “treat them equally and not discriminate against them”? Like I said, it’s hard for me to reconcile.
That’s my perspective. Even assuming you are also American, I don’t think you’re a bad person. However, I do think it’s worth really reexamining what’s important to you. I hope that when it comes time to vote, you will not turn your back on that core value of equality. Let it be a high priority. Leave that gray area.
You kidding? You think I vote republican? Those mother fuckers are nuts.
But the “left” (what I call right-lite) isn’t some picnic either.
I have allegiances to nobody. Both parties are trash. Off with their heads.
It’s people like you who think it’s an “One or the other” deal. No. Fuck that. Not all votes have an ® or (D) next to them.
But as soon as I say that some lunatic is going to come around and claim “you’re throwing your vote to the OTHER party by doing that!”…fuck off with that shit too.
You think I vote republican? Those mother fuckers are nuts.
I thought by “gray area” you meant that you are roughly 50-50 on the parties. I apologize if I misunderstood.
I’d be interested to hear who you are voting for who’s not D or R, though I don’t expect you to doxx yourself with local election details. I do vote for third parties and independent candidates in some local elections when that’s viable. Even then, much of the time it’s the same candidate endorsed by one of the major parties. I support the adoption of ranked-choice voting (or something similar) at all levels of elections so that third parties in bigger elections can be more than spoilers. I lived through 2000. I saw how that goes.
Many other countries have a wide variety of parties and more political choice. I believe it’s possible for America to get there as well in the future. When it comes to the presidential election, like I said, I have to vote in the reality I live in and I don’t consider it a gray area. It sounds like we just disagree on what’s “gray” here.
The more local you get, the more subtleties there are.
From my perspective as an American, I find it difficult to reconcile these two statements:
“I want everyone to treat them equally and not discriminate against them”
“I’m kind of in a gray area”
In practice, there is no middle ground in American politics. You vote Republican, or you vote Democrat. This is most true in presidential elections but still generally true in state and even local elections throughout the country. The parties are pretty well aligned top to bottom. Conservative or liberal.
Like you, I want everybody to be treated equally. For me, there’s no gray area about it. I hate how little choice I have in politics, but this is the reality I live in, and this is the reality I have to vote in.
If you have a clear alignment to one party or the other, I wouldn’t call that a “gray area”. And if you don’t? If you don’t have a clear alignment to one or the other? In America? In the 2020s? When one party is very clearly, and very persistently violating that core value of “treat them equally and not discriminate against them”? Like I said, it’s hard for me to reconcile.
That’s my perspective. Even assuming you are also American, I don’t think you’re a bad person. However, I do think it’s worth really reexamining what’s important to you. I hope that when it comes time to vote, you will not turn your back on that core value of equality. Let it be a high priority. Leave that gray area.
That’s a quality rant, well done!
You kidding? You think I vote republican? Those mother fuckers are nuts.
But the “left” (what I call right-lite) isn’t some picnic either.
I have allegiances to nobody. Both parties are trash. Off with their heads.
It’s people like you who think it’s an “One or the other” deal. No. Fuck that. Not all votes have an ® or (D) next to them.
But as soon as I say that some lunatic is going to come around and claim “you’re throwing your vote to the OTHER party by doing that!”…fuck off with that shit too.
I thought by “gray area” you meant that you are roughly 50-50 on the parties. I apologize if I misunderstood.
I’d be interested to hear who you are voting for who’s not D or R, though I don’t expect you to doxx yourself with local election details. I do vote for third parties and independent candidates in some local elections when that’s viable. Even then, much of the time it’s the same candidate endorsed by one of the major parties. I support the adoption of ranked-choice voting (or something similar) at all levels of elections so that third parties in bigger elections can be more than spoilers. I lived through 2000. I saw how that goes.
Many other countries have a wide variety of parties and more political choice. I believe it’s possible for America to get there as well in the future. When it comes to the presidential election, like I said, I have to vote in the reality I live in and I don’t consider it a gray area. It sounds like we just disagree on what’s “gray” here.
The more local you get, the more subtleties there are.