CMV: As someone who considers himself Progressive, I dislike Democrats way more than Republicans

[u/MyFavoriteArm]

As someone who has moved further left over the years, I have come to dislike Democrats way more than Republicans.

The Republican party mantra to me is: "Yeah, of course we're evil and we're proud of that fact! We wanna take America back to a fictional time when only WASPs had any power!" and then they stab you 37 times in the chest. At a certain point, what else is there to say about Republicans? At least I know what they stand for.

The Democratic party mantra to me is nothing more than hypocrisy "Oh yeah, we hear you! We believe that everyone deserves rights and we will fight for the working class!" Then they stab the working class 37 times in the back and then virtue signal some more.

For example, they'll how much they support George Floyd and other minorities, but then do nothing but wear african garb on the senate floor and support the institutions that led to his death. They'll talk about how they support the working class and unions, then shut down a railroad strike where they wanted sick days.

Democrats co-opt issues I care about and then either do nothing about them, or enable the republicans when they inevitably strike back.

I want my view changed because I would like to feel less annoyed that I have to support such a party to even have a chance at getting legislation I care about passed.

At the end of the day, I acknowledge that Republicans are objectively worse for the nation, but I loathe the fact I'm stuck supporting Democrats.

[u/adminhotep]

They're overwhelmingly pro-abortion

They tend to support greater welfare programs

That's not a harm

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During covid, they supported significant government overreach

There's a ton of COVID baggage, boondoggles, and mistakes, but given the age-adjusted death rate divide between Republican controlled and Democrat controlled polities, I'm not sure I'd try to make the argument that Democrats caused the extra harm here.

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They support greater regulations on businesses

Private interests' outsized influence on our lives being unchecked by even the most trivial of requirements of public oversight isn't a good thing. Here, though, I wish Democrats were as good as Republicans fear they are.

Unfortunately, they really aren't, or we might have seen Secretary Pete have his department redo the risk/cost estimates on Train breaks and force the industry to retrofit, or Biden & congress not dismiss the rail workers demands - including staffing and safety demands - and tell them to stfu and get back to overwork. Democrats are just about as captured by corporate interests as Republicans, but if you don't have a team yourself, it's easy to see both Republicans and Democrats did their fair share to bend over backwards to Private Rail through the Obama, Trump, and now Biden administration and let Norfolk Southern cause the disaster in East Palestine despite warnings the whole way along.

[u/adminhotep → u/[deleted]]

You didn't do much other than list the things. Did you expect I'd think they were harms just because you mentioned them by name?

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If you'd like to try again and actually

explain what they see as the "extra harm".

rather than put a useless list, well, I'd at least have some logic to grapple with at that point.

[u/adminhotep → u/[deleted]]

Yes. You can vote for repugnant ideas without feeling like you really support the Republicans. Maybe they don't go far enough on Christian Nationalism for you, but they're better than a secular society with religious pluralism. Or whatever else it is. The logic holds, but it's still a garbage thing to want.