Homophobic Democrat party vs pro-gay republican party

both are, and will always be, shit, regardless of their 'policy' on gay people

 

I currently vote third party. If Democrats were homophobic that'd just be one more reason to hate the two party system.

 

What you should actually dislike is the first past the post system

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I think I would still be a Democrat. That's just one policy.

 

I don't dig parties... I vote for a person based on politics, not just their party.

 

I would still probably agree with Democrats, just because I agree with most Democratic stances.

I'd probably go third party though. Obviously, I wouldn't be welcome in a homophobic party.

 

That was actually very interesting, even if it was a little oversimplified. I've spent a bit of time thinking about how a voting system might escape a two-party problem but never seen come across one that seemed viable. I'll be interested to see what his "alternative voting" system looks like.

Thanks for sharing!

 

First of all, it's the Democratic party. "Democrat Party" is an epithet that only Republicans and racists use.

I'll never ever EVER vote for a Republican EVER, even if all of a sudden they accepted gays. If my beloved Democratic Party suddenly turned homophobic, I'd be an independent.

 

^ This. I'd probably go for a third party, in all honesty. The day I vote Republican is the day y'all are free to take me out to pasture.

 

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agreed

 

Damn, you said it first.

 

Same here. I really doubt the Republicans would ever be pro-gay; much of their base consists of the paranoid, religious right and evangelical vote, and I highly doubt their going to ditch where a good 30 to 60% of their support comes from, depending on the state.

 

Yet that's exactly what they need to do in order to stay afloat. They need to dump the religious right, stop the war on women and the homophobic policies/rhetoric and just run on economic issues. That's how the Conservative Party of Canada (Basically the equivalent of the GOP) works. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated:

On gay marriage (which became fully legal everywhere in Canada in 2005): "We have no intention of further opening or reopening this issue.”

On abortion, both the Liberal (same as the Democrats, but not the Canadian New Democratic Party) and Conservative parties have no official position on abortion and both have pro-choice and anti-choice members.

As a liberal Democrat, I agree with every campaign point of Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1952 GOP platform. If you read their platforms through the years, every four years they moved a little further to the right, and in the last 5 years, they've just gotten more hateful. Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the Republican Party bragged that the 2012 Presidential Election Platform was "the most conservative platform in modern history." I can go on for hours about why I hate the Republican Party and why they're so delusional.

And if it weren't for gerrymandering in the House of Representatives, 2012 would have been one of the biggest farces for the GOP in modern history.

 

This is hard for me to conceive, so long have Republicans been complicit in race and sexuality discrimination. I honestly don't support either party though. I might vote for the dems, except they are so far from leading on this and many other issues that it doesn't matter how vile repubs are.

 

I'd stay an independent, I suppose.

 

I'm a registered Republican, but I'm pretty much a moderate.

I favor Republicans slightly, although they tend to twist facts more frequently than Democrats (I see it every day where I work). As for Democrats, I think they pander more to voters and tell them what they want to hear instead of reality.

If more Republicans favored gay rights, it probably wouldn't change much for me because I don't base my opinion on candidates/political parties on just one issue. I think it's better to look at a candidate's overall view on public policy and beliefs rather than just one, which is why I voted for Mitt Romney. Romney wasn't exactly pro-gay.

 

The Republicans have major identity issues on all fronts at the moment (and have been dealt major damage by the latest Bush), and I have never fully agreed with their social conservatism. But a select group of Reps (namely Ted Cruz and anyone with the last name "Paul") are ones I feel are on our side enough that we should be on theirs.

I wish with all my heart we could end the two-party dominance because it's killing our country. But of the two, I am more likely to side with the right than Obama's insidious hyper-liberalism.