Why are you a Democrat?

[woo me with science]

90. +10000 What's most amazing about it to me

is how Orwellian the messaging has to be to sustain it. Voters are offered two candidates with the very same agenda in most of the major areas of policy...

Mass spying on Americans? Both parties support it.
Handing the internet to corporations? Both parties support it.
Austerity for the masses? Both parties support it.
Cutting social safety nets? Both parties support it.
Corporatists in the cabinet? Both parties support it.
Tolling our interstate highways? Both parties support it.
Corporate education policy? Both parties support it.
Bank bailouts? Both parties support it.
Ignoring the trillions stashed overseas? Both parties support it.
Trans-Pacific Job/Wage Killing Secret Agreement? Both parties support it.
Drilling and fracking? Both parties support it.
Wars on medical marijuana instead of corrupt banks?
Deregulation of the food industry? Both parties support it.
GMO's? Both parties support it.
Militarized police and assaults on protesters? Both parties support it.
Indefinite detention? Both parties support it.
Drone wars and kill lists? Both parties support it.
Targeting of journalists and whistleblowers? Both parties support it.
Private prisons replacing public prisons? Both parties support it.
Unions? Both parties view them with contempt.

...yet we are simultaneously propagandized, using shiny objects and wedge issues, to believe that the parties are more polarized than at any time in history.

The real goal has been to polarize the electorate rather than the politicians so that we will hate and battle one another while they quietly implement the corporate agenda. To detach people's loyalties from the principles and policies that led them to select the party in the first place, and attach it instead to the party itself, regardless of what policies it pursues or how malignant its agenda becomes.

Hence, ridiculous posts like the ones you see below, that try to herd voters into into their teams based on vapid appeals to team loyalty and absurd, hectoring attempts to make it socially unacceptable to stray from the herd....while deliberately avoiding any policy considerations whatsoever.