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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by AdieuToLogic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:24PM (#42544998)
Categorizing in terms of absolutes, such as "there are no liberals who ..." and "no conservatives who ...", is to engage in reductionism for the purpose of supporting a preconceived notion:

  ... for majority of people every single opinion and thought
  they have just magically lines up with one political party ...
This is simply not true.
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by bdangubic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:12PM (#42545348)
it simply is :)
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by AdieuToLogic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:11PM (#42545731)
>> Categorizing in terms of absolutes, such as "there are no liberals who ..." and "no conservatives who ...", is to engage in reductionism ...

>> This is simply not true.

> it simply is :)

People make choices for a multitude of reasons.

Sometimes those choices are knowingly to their detriment and can be confounding to others whom are not a part of their decision process. Many times the reasoning is "sacrifice for the greater good", where "the greater good" is defined by the very people who are the harbinger of their pain. Other times, it can be as simple as; "my life sucks so everyone else's should too!"

I am sure there are many more categories which could be provided as well.

But to say:

  .. for majority of people every single opinion and thought 
  they have just magically lines up with one political party ...
Is to be so dismissive of people as to be the height of arrogance.
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by bdangubic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:27PM (#42545827)
edited my comment to elaborate and not be snarky as I was
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by AdieuToLogic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:33PM (#42545868)
No worries.

I was about to edit mine to clarify that I am not judging you nor your comments, instead simply providing my perspective in the hope it helps.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by johnnyanmac on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:58PM (#42546619)
May have been a broad brush, but the spirit is true.

To be more exact: in the end the RNC/DNC comes down to votes in maybe 10 small states before candidates decide to drop out and stop wasting money on a losing battle. Those 2 candidates are what's on our ballot.

I'm in california and I don't think I ever had any say in the DNC because it's already said and done by that time from a bunch of swing states that may collectively have less represenatives than my state. There are some very good liberals I fully side with, but they don't get to be on that ballent.