I have been a Democrat my entire life...

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77. D's and R's have long been identical on foreign/military/economic policy.

A foreign/military policy difference is impossible to find.

An economic distinction between neoliberals and neocons is hard to make, both parties promote a totally unreconstructed notion of absolute free trade, a notion that can't go any further right. The movers and shakers of neither party have put even the least thought or effort into developing and promoting a concept of free-and-fair trade, a concept that's required if participant countries are to move in the direction of environmental damage control, developing a common ground for workers rights, and so on. Neither party promotes the idea that US natural resources are by nature part of a common wealth (along with the air that US citizens breathe!), owned by all citizens and so to be used to benefit all, equally, for now and for future generations.

With regard foreign/military/economic policy the US has only *one* extreme right party, and that party is definitive of what "extreme right" means in the world today.

So what do these two parties differ on? They differ on issues that require social/cultural splits between groups regarding issues of personal morality, in particular anything pertaining to sex and religion. Even w.r.t. these differences, the differences are more or less purely rhetorical.