What's your response to the "There's [almost] no difference between the two parties" comment?

[cascadiance]

89. Let's pick apart some of those reasons though...

... and apply them to recent efforts from Obama and other Democrats on what would actually happen with what they are pushing..

1) Climate change -
o TPP that Obama is pushing would destroy our efforts to fight climate change, by encouraging more fossil fuel usage to transport more goods and labor globally to help with the race to the bottom. It would also race to the bottom to areas with less environmental regulations on carbon pollution, etc. too which also would hurt climate change.

2) Affordable health care -
o Obama avoided negotiating for single payer or even a public option and kept in place so much of what rewards the insurance companies continuing to keep our health care system too costly. Why didn't he negotiate harder for that? Obamacare was a good step in the right direction, but it could have been done better.

3) right to unionize -
o TPP that Obama is pushing will basically destroy labor organization around the world by allowing companies more freedom to go to base their manufacturing operations in countries and export globally products made with labor standards that are in the toilet.

4) right to vote -
o We need a constitutional amendment to give us all the right to vote to help be the basis to stop this voter disenfranchisement. And we also need consitutional amendment to shut down "corporate personhood" and "money is free speech" to stop the buying of our government too, before voting will count again. Still waiting for high level democratic leadership on this.

5) avoiding war through negotiations and use of the UN
o We're better than Republicans, but we're not negotiating things with continued drone strikes that even go after our own citizens without due process, and are conducting global efforts on spying on masses of people without good reason to do so as even FISA court oversight is a joke now.

6) keeping religion out of government
o Haven't done much to put in laws things that will prevent things like Hobby Lobby decisions from happening from our corrupt supreme court, which our Democratic members didn't question enough candidates like Roberts positions on corporate personhood to be made public before allowing him to be appointed as its head.

7) Net neutrality
o Why did Obama select Ted Wheeler who was a corrupt lobbyist for Comcast to head up the FCC, which has made this so much of an issue to start with, before he was able to probably convince Wheeler behind the scenes to step back from the earlier BS that was being pushed. If Obama had made a better choice than Wheeler, net neutrality would never have been an issue to begin with.

8) fighting income inequality
o The bigger income inequality is if we allow things like the TPP To get passed, which will force all of our jobs in terms of income levels to be in the toilet, not just women or minorities. Race to the bottom to achieve "equality" is the message that's being pushed on to us.

9) federal oversight of civil rights
o We should do less in efforts to arm our police like military, and to have them target people just trying to protest like Occupy protestors were doing, and more about how to fix our grand jury system and other areas that have been corrupt to allow such abuse to happen. Still not enough from Democrats, though arguably they are doing a better job in trying to fix this than Republicans.

And things like prosecuting banksters and other corporate criminals for crimes that have brought our country to its knees simply is NOT being done by this administration's justice department. Now the Republicans of *today* would likely be no better, but even Reagan's administration was better at prosecuting banksters in his day when he put in prison many behind the Savings and Loan crisis then. Why can't Obama and his DOJ of today do that?

You see why we're frustrated with the double speak we're getting from both parties today about how they want to do somethings but actually deliver things that don't measure up to what they say they'll do?