Can We Just Agree that Everything is Fake? The American Aristocracy is Real.

[Jackpine Radical]

31. The parties are permitted to differ on certain social issues--

LGBT, reproductive choice, gun control. etc., all of which issues they flog to keep their partisans happy, but they don't much differ on economic issues. They both keep the focus on the deficit, support the Endless War, push austerity and cuts to the poor, de-regulation of corporations (whether banks, energy companies, international job-outsourcers, or whatever), etc.

Obama may give lip service to climate change theory, but watch Keystone roll through.

Even a major reform like Obamacare came to be only because it was essentially written by the insurance companies, who stand to profit handsomely from its overall structure.

Banks & corporations and the 1%ers who own them don't give a shit about LGBT, abortion, gun control and the like, so the parties are free to whip up their followers on these issues, but it would be political (and maybe literal) death for any candidate of either party to advocate fair taxation, an end to war, or a reining in of corporate welfare.