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[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Of course- and that's ultimately defined American politics. No matter what anyone goes on, it's all about abortion right now. You're either on the left and think "abortions should be in and out and given out to everyone, especially people I don't like", or you're Republican and it's "this fetus is dead. It's born dead. It has no brainwaves, no heartbeat...if you believe in a soul, it has no soul. It's a medical procedure to take this dead clump of cells not even usable for stem cell research out before it putrifies and kills the mother", and they'd say "...well, if it's born to term, the fetus will become an angel and sit on a cloud and look at Jesus all day!".

Throw in how the extremists have pulled the party to the extremes, and it's moreso- now it's "they're both shit, they're both evil, and it's one or the other. Hold your nose, pick the party who's view on abortion matches yours, and go home and have a good cry that you actually VOTED for that piece of shit.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah yeah I don't much like the candidate for my party but that other guy holy shit, he's like if Hitler and Genghis Khan had a love child, his hobby is killing puppies, if he's elected then the oceans will boil the sky will be filled with advertisements your children will be forced to learn ballet and they'll ban vegetables and make you eat pork!

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. If the extremists taking hold of both parties doesn't hurt it, or the "people view political parties as a sports team and treat them as such" doesn't hurt it, the fact that the US politics are a two-party system, there's no hope of a third party emerging, and indeed if you try voting for a third party, it's throwing your vote away at best, voting for the opponent at worst is what really kills it.

If third parties could sprout up, then maybe it'd save things- the Republicans could split into the centrists, the fiscal republicans, the Christian Republicans, the Trump wackjobs, and the outright Nazis, the Democrats could split into the centrists, the social Democrats, the idpol-obsessed Democrats from each group, the avowed communists, etc.