Political parties/comparison

Those who insist that the Democrats are no better than the Republicans are generally committing the Texas sharpshooter fallacy (stressing the similarities while ignoring the differences) and need to take the Party Equivalence Challenge.

Democrats	Republicans
Policy agenda typically based on evidence towards a more egalitarian, classless society	Policy agenda almost always based on manipulating public perception to support a deeply hierarchical, stratified, unequal society
End "War on Drugs" (good): Treat drug dependence as illness, not crime	Continue "War on Drugs" (bad): Drug use, sale, and production should be punished
Help those in need.	Don't help those in need.
Propose sensible measures for increasing employment.	Proposals for increasing employment generally involve giving more money to the rich, which doesn't work and makes economic disparity worse.
raise taxes to pay for desired spending	borrow to pay for desired spending; use deficits as excuse to cut social programs while maintaining large government where it suits them
tend to oppose starting wars or invading other countries	strongly approve wars and invasions, often unanimously; refuse to raise taxes to pay for war expenses
work to reduce racism	claim to be against racism, but: support laws that have a disproportionate negative effect on non-whites e.g. voter ID laws heavily promote racist beliefs and ideas

Links

• 2015-04-14 Both Parties Are Exactly The Same, Part I (discussion: Google+)