There's no indication whatsoever of an implied accusation.
Much as they read, wrongly, into my statement.
And there's nothing to imply that the poster was reading anything into your statement--which couldn't be more wrong, BTW--he/she was merely stating that many people like yourself who wrongly identify both parties as exactly the same do so as an excuse not to become involved in the political process, or even to vote. As I mentioned, Troglodyte frequently moans and whines here about how the parties are the same and that's why he/she doesn't vote.
It's easy to construe your statement as an excuse, because aside from accepting donations from PACs the policies of each party are markedly different--and that's why the Republicans lost the last election. Anti-immigrant, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, anti-women's rights, refusing to tax the rich and laying the entire tax burden on the middle and lower classes--all stances in direct opposition to what every public opinion poll reflects. That's why more than a few Republicans abandoned their party in the last election.
So to continue to claim that both parties are the same is ridiculous. That's a fallacy, because they most definitely are not. The public obviously recognized this and managed to defeat the Republicans despite all their machinations to manipulate and limit the vote to people of color and the poor--two factions they know they will never win.
Oh, and that's another significant difference between the parties--and one that clearly lays waste to the argument that both parties are equally corrupt. The Democrats haven't done anything in the last four presidential elections to hinder a person's right to vote--they've come a long way since the Dixiecrats of the fifties and sixties. Indeed, it's worthwhile to point out that those very Dixiecrats all defected to the Republican party beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan. Surprise, surprise.
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Date: 2012-12-24 10:55 pm (UTC)There's no indication whatsoever of an implied accusation.
Much as they read, wrongly, into my statement.
And there's nothing to imply that the poster was reading anything into your statement--which couldn't be more wrong, BTW--he/she was merely stating that many people like yourself who wrongly identify both parties as exactly the same do so as an excuse not to become involved in the political process, or even to vote. As I mentioned, Troglodyte frequently moans and whines here about how the parties are the same and that's why he/she doesn't vote.
It's easy to construe your statement as an excuse, because aside from accepting donations from PACs the policies of each party are markedly different--and that's why the Republicans lost the last election. Anti-immigrant, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, anti-women's rights, refusing to tax the rich and laying the entire tax burden on the middle and lower classes--all stances in direct opposition to what every public opinion poll reflects. That's why more than a few Republicans abandoned their party in the last election.
So to continue to claim that both parties are the same is ridiculous. That's a fallacy, because they most definitely are not. The public obviously recognized this and managed to defeat the Republicans despite all their machinations to manipulate and limit the vote to people of color and the poor--two factions they know they will never win.
Oh, and that's another significant difference between the parties--and one that clearly lays waste to the argument that both parties are equally corrupt. The Democrats haven't done anything in the last four presidential elections to hinder a person's right to vote--they've come a long way since the Dixiecrats of the fifties and sixties. Indeed, it's worthwhile to point out that those very Dixiecrats all defected to the Republican party beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan. Surprise, surprise.