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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Yes, plenty. I'm not going to because I frankly am loath to discuss the subject for the millionth bloody time. But it doesn't take much effort to notice that facists and conservatives get along much better than liberals and socialists do, to our detriment.
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I don’t think you can actually name one example that fits your description because I don’t think you put that much thought into it, which is fine. I mean, you’re talking about Canada where NDP supporters regularly throw support behind the Liberals if there is a sense that Conservatives might win. The Liberals, who are not far left at all, have been in power for.. how long?
I guess to me what Yamer is pointing out is the type of divisiveness where it’s not so much that there’s a clear desire to
gain or
improve something, but rather people whose fundamental political drive is to take away something or hurt someone. “They (the left) are pushing their agenda on me, so I’m going to be against it just because, and I’m going to laugh when they don’t get what they want.”
What you seem to be talking about is differing priorities within a political spectrum that result in people voting in a way they believe actually improves something or voting in a way that’s true to their actual beliefs, rather than looking forward to the damage they’ll cause someone else. That type of “divisiveness” if you want to call it that is actually good and healthy across the spectrum, left or right. In fact, if that type of “divisiveness” was more present on the right, the world would be much better.
So, I think you totally missed the point.