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− | {| style="border: 1px solid blue;" | + | Those who insist that the Democrats are no better than the Republicans are generally committing the {{l/wp|Texas sharpshooter fallacy}} (stressing the similarities while ignoring the differences) and need to take the [[Belief challenges/Party Equivalence|Party Equivalence Challenge]]. |
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− | ! Democrats !! Republicans | + | ! [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] !! [[Republican Party|Republicans]] |
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+ | * Policy agenda typically based on [[evidence-based thinking|evidence]] towards a more egalitarian, classless society | ||
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+ | * Policy agenda almost always based on [[Perception-based thinking|manipulating public perception]] to support a deeply hierarchical, stratified, unequal society | ||
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* Help those in need. | * Help those in need. | ||
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− | * [[Republican Party/ | + | * [[Republican Party/poverty|Don't help those in need.]] |
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* Propose [[Democratic Party/job creation|sensible measures for increasing employment]]. | * Propose [[Democratic Party/job creation|sensible measures for increasing employment]]. | ||
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− | * Proposals for increasing employment generally involve | + | * Proposals for increasing employment generally involve giving more money to the rich, which doesn't work ''and'' makes {{l/ip|economic disparity}} worse. |
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+ | * raise taxes to pay for desired spending | ||
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+ | * borrow to pay for desired spending; use deficits as [[Republican Party/small government|excuse to cut social programs]] while maintaining [[Republican Party/large government|large government]] where it suits them | ||
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+ | * tend to oppose starting wars or invading other countries | ||
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+ | * strongly approve wars and invasions, often unanimously; refuse to raise taxes to pay for war expenses | ||
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+ | * work to reduce racism | ||
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+ | * 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 | ||
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+ | ==Links== | ||
+ | * '''2015-04-14''' [http://bitchypundit.com/2015/04/14/both-parties-are-exactly-the-same-i/ Both Parties Are Exactly The Same, Part I] (discussion: [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Bitchypundit/posts/FqMAM6yc5TU Google+]) |
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- 2015-04-14 Both Parties Are Exactly The Same, Part I (discussion: Google+)