To those malcontents who say they can't see any daylight between the parties, I say --

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. The few, very few people who actually say

'there is NO difference between the parties' are obvious trolls that MIRT boots very quickly, and are about as rare as unicorns, even nuclear ones.

What almost everyone else says, that is frequently misquoted as 'no daylight between' by people wanting to caricature those folks as malcontent (and really, about the only more establishment-speak you could get beyond calling them 'malcontents' is to call them 'dissidents'. I can only assume your choice of the anarchy symbol as your avatar is highly ironic, given your investment in the established party.) is 'the parties are obviously far apart on social issues, but far too often much more similar on foreign military adventurism (drones, black ops, ongoing large numbers of American troops in countries in turmoil despite 'the end' of 'combat'), "homeland security" (domestic surveillance that makes the 4th amendment look like a quaint joke, militarized police, and joint operations between the two to disrupt civilian protests), and overarching economic policies that keep the richest getting even richer and the rest of us owning an ever shrinking slice of the pie, and ever more of us unemployed and not even counted in the statistics.


So sure, there is plenty of daylight on a narrow range of issues. And there are a smaller subset of Congressfolks on the left who are good on the other issues as well, but not enough to break the party apart from the Repubs on the issues of keeping the powerful powerful and the poor in line.