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The political left and right is a figment of your imagination

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Re: The political left and right is a figment of your imagination

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With all the usual caveats about first-past-the-post and the two-party system not offering a good range of choices in the US, this guy is pretty off the mark. Democrats and Republicans are meaningfully different choices and I tend to assume that anyone suggesting otherwise is (purposefully or not) helping Republicans -- who stand the most to gain from people cynically removing themselves from the political process (a…

Except, the slogan "Don't say gay" was made up by people opposed to the legislation it refers to, and the actual legislation does not contain that line nor is it in any way representative of the contents of the bill. It looks like you might be a victim of misinformation (as was I, initially). You might be happily surprised if you read the actual legislation, at least I was, as a pro-LGBT rights person who was concerned based on misleading commentary about it I had read at first.

The "Patriot Act" was mostly increases to military and spying. The "Inflation Reduction Act" was mostly about domestic manufacturing and supply chain stability. Every political thing in America gets a misleading name by its sponsors and a different misleading name by its opponents.

Re: The political left and right is a figment of your imagination

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"Coming from Ireland, I am always struck by how passionate people are about political parties. Most people I’ve met consider themselves on the left (Democrat) or on the right (Republican). When I ask them how they pick a side, they speak about how their ethical and moral values form the basis for their worldview, and help them choose a side. " The author is misguided in attributing the "left-right" divide in America…

There's only one place in the world where Manchin and Sanders would be in the same political party.
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