Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
I’m American, and I believe both sides raise valid points and both sides have problems. The polarization on both sides and refusal to listen to the other side is what is destroying this country politically.
The last presidential race, we got an egotistical maniac and a guy who is too senile to know where he is or how to form a sentence. This is the best we can do?
I am NOT saying both sides are the same.
I’m not American and I think both sides of the American political divide are bonkers
But I can’t talk as all we are doing in the UK is following you down the same mad rabbit hole
But you are when you make statements like that. You’re downplaying the much much worse one when you use any sort of language that can be interpreted as “both bad.” Biden is not senile. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea, fine. But he’s not attempting a coup or attempting to dismantle democracy when he doesn’t get his way. It’s absurd to even speak of both in the same sentence.
Meets the terms of the post, so good job.
My main beef with Democrats is that they don’t give two shits about codifying the stuff that was “legalized” by SCOTUS decisions, or marijuana. They use it as fodder for their re-election campaigns then do nothing to fix any of it. Womens’ rights and LGBT rights are human rights, but Dems keep using them as pawns to point at the Republicans and blame them, then do nothing for four years except raise taxes. I’m getting tired of it.
And about Biden, keep in mind he didn’t want his kids growing up in a racial jungle. We need to do better than this.
I assume you know why Republicans are bad.
They may have had a chance to push it, but they didn’t have the votes to pass it. Something that’s overstated is how much control of congress the Democrats have had, specially in the Obama Administration. It’s been said that they had 2 years, but they only had a few weeks between Senators being hospitalized, AL Fraken being seated and Ted Kennedy’s replacement being seated. Something similar happened early this year with Feinstein (That’s another topic all together) being hospitalized. Second, during the Obama admin they didn’t have a party-platform mandate. Lieberman almost ran with McCain in 2008, he was only somewhat aligned with Democrats and is largely the reason we didn’t get a public option. I’d like to see things move further left, but as you can see the current makeup of Congress doesn’t allow it.
That was 50 years ago, and not at all uncommon of a feeling during the time. It’s a product of his time, just look at how much worse it was across the isle. I don’t think it should be held against an 80 year old when they have largely left those feelings in the past. None of us can know what thing future generations will judge us about in 50 years. Now someone of that age range that continued to feel that way you can judge. Personally I think it’s wrong to continue to judge someone for their past actions once they correct it. You should incentivize people to change. If you endlessly criticize them it’ll just make them stay the course and only associate with like minded people.
Biden isn’t the democratic party. Trump isn’t the republican. I’m talking about the party. They are individuals. I’m talking about policies. There are good and bad policies in every party, and because you get demonized for not subscribing to it all you can’t pick and choose. But yes, I know it’s not the popular opinion, which is extremely scary to me.
Both sides ARE bad. The real issue is that both sides have latched onto some valid points and you need to eat their whole philosophy or the rest of the base will consider you a monster. Then they come out of the woodwork and say crap like “you’re saying both sides are the same” to justify shutting on people who don’t subscribe to the dogma. If you want to say that one side has latched onto a specific type of person sure. But that doesn’t mean you have to subscribe to the opposite side and forgo your own mind and sense of political advocacy. Things are going as they are because they are being propped up by people desperate to justify their past decisions instead of learning from them.
I can’t believe people refer to Biden as senile and not Trump. Go google Trump nuclear speech and tell me that man isn’t senile, he can’t even form 3 coherent sentences in a row.
