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| quote: | Originally posted by Marc Summers
Things... What things? Educate me. |
Well, both parties like to think they know what's best for everyone, so they have a bad habit of trying to put their opinions into law.
The Republicans for example often try to implement "moral standards" of questionable justification into law: an idea which is inherently bad regardless of what those standards are. Issues like abortion, gay rights, standards of obscenity in the media are examples of issues on which the Republicans feel justified in forcing their opinion on everybody else... which I couldn't agree with even if I shared their opinion.
On the other hand the Democrats seem to spend a little too much time and effort trying to pander to various minority "groups" by giving them various protections and privileges which are supposed to promote vague ideologies like "equality" and "diversity" but really only serve to reinforce the idea that society is a set of groups which are in competition and, by extension ought to be antagonistic towards each other.
If the two parties were to work together instead of working against each other, I think that the area that they would find most agreeable is telling people what to do and what not to do, since that's what they both seem to specialize in. So I would expect lots of new restrictions and laws telling people how they should act and very little substantive improvements to any public services, since neither party has a coherent view on how to do that anyway. As far as I can see that's a bad thing, at least the current hostility between the parties stops them from carrying out some of their dubious ideas.
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