Which Party Would You Vote For?

[NorthwestRider]

The Spineless Weak Democrats

The Pro Cultural War Whiny Republicans

I Want Both Parties To Get Destroyed

[humanearth]

None, I came to conclusion that my vote is useless and pointless.

Here is what I learned in the last few years.

Voter ID was created so they know who you vote for

Dems and Reps both belong to the same secret elite society

They all know the truth on the plain to the depopulation of the Earth

And so much more

[Jay3344]

After the last few elections I’m not voting for a major party unless it’s a candidate I really like

[nightdrot]

Did not vote given the characterization of each party. That said, the party I would chose is Republican, but that says less than people - and this poll - assume. American political parties are not ideological parties as you tend to see in Europe. Rather they are lose knit coalitions of regional, religious, ethnic, racial, income and other groups that have come together in part by common interests and in part by historical accident.

In the case of the GOP, it is a coalition made up of classical liberals - which Americans call conservatives - libertarians, small and medium sized business, religious and social traditionalists, lower middle and upper middle income earners, farmers, rural and exurban populations, and historically older voters. It tends to dominate the South, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain West and the state of Alaska - though this is starting to change somewhat.

On the Democratic side you get, ethnic and religious minorities, middle and high income wage earners, big business and entertainment industries, urban and inner suburban votes, radical liberals - which Americans call liberals. (Note, the term "radical" here does not mean as Americans use it, i. e. "extremist," but rather as the ancient Greeks used the term, meaning "to the root of.") The regions where it is dominant are northeast, the mid-Atlantic, the Pacific coast and the state of Hawaii. (Though again, this is starting to change and is one of the reasons that Mrs. Clinton was defeated in 2016.)

This is how you get a Republican Party that runs from Ted Cruz at one end to Susan Collins at the other, with the libertarian Rand Paul thrown into the mix. This is how you get a Democratic Party that runs from Joe Manchin at one end to Elizabeth Warren at the other. Quite simply, party identification is not about ideological identity.

This being even more complicated by the fact that both parties are experiencing a populist phase as happened in the late 19th century and again in the 1960s and 70s. Populism not being a schematic philosophy, but rather a cultural attitude characterized by distrust of complexity, a disdain for elites, and a belief that the common man is the font of all virtue but that he is oppressed by the elites and the "special interests." This manifesting itself in a mishmash of policies that are more often related by sentiment than any coherent overarching theoretical structure.

Thus President Trump in the GOP. He is NOT a conservative. Thus the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic party. She is not a liberal nor a socialist. Rather both appeal to feelings of envy and resentment in the electorate and toss out random policies to appease those sentiments.

For my part, I am conservative, but I put an asterisk over it. My conservatism is not what Americans typically call conservative. Because, as noted, what Americans call conservative is, historically speaking, not conservatism at all but is, rather, classical liberalism. Albeit with a streak of social traditionalism rooted in the Protestant Reformation.

My conservatism, which is classical or Tory conservatism, traces its intellectual pedigree through Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, the 18th century British statesman and political philosopher, Edmund Burke, and also the British Prime Ministers Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

Classical conservatives emphasize the nurturing of civic virtue, see free markets as a tool as opposed to the end purpose of government, and believe that politics should take its bearings not from human reason, but human nature. As Burke said, "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please. We ought see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations."

There is much more to it, but this summarizes it.

[Williams28Jao]

I honestly think your going down a rabbit hole to deep my friend. Your letting politics run your life as you type out your beliefs in what each party stands for. If someone is for one party do you think they believe and do everything a republican or democrats do? The parties in general were meant to stand for something back in the days and some people still stand by those. I’m all for war I don’t want war to start but I do believe and honor our people in our country fighting for our liberty fighting for our freedom. The very same freedom many citizens are taking advantage of and making our country look like crap. America isn’t what it used to be. Many people then would take pride in America. Now we got people stomping on our own flag and our school even took out the pledge of allegiance. Now we got people who complain about everything and everyone wants to get rich and be noticed for things that never will matter. and they will never live their lives to be remembered by no one all for themselves full of greed and hostility. Welcome to America the home of the greed.

[goaded]

If I were in the US: any party but Republican because they're clearly more interested in power than the well-being of the country. For hundreds of years, the parties have accepted the results of elections, even when it came down to a few hundred votes (in one state, in 2000). Only in 2020 (although it was foreshadowed in 2016) has a political party refused to accept the will of the voters, and that was the Republican party. They've fallen from the party that cancelled slavery to the party that cancelled democracy.

The only reason Trump and his enablers aren't facing trials right now is that there are millions of Americans who refuse to accept the truth that, even before the results of the election were known, Republicans were scheming to install their president by any means possible, no matter how dishonourable or illegal.

[Anonymous]

I want to start a third party and it will be the dawn of a new age.

[NorthwestRider]

Stay away from nonsense cultural war issues and focus on the real issues if you do

[Opinion Owner]

Trust me one of my main goals is to end the culture war by any means. I want restored infrastructure and institutions. The poor to have jobs where they can raise stable families. To destroy all the subversive elements in society. Make it where celebrities and the super rich with their vast quantities of money and influence cannot overpower the system. An iron fist maybe necessary at least for some duration.

[Iron_Man]

Republicans for Donald Trump