• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Cause democrats are not a unified faction.

    Democrats are basically 15 different political parties shoved under the same umbrella.

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      4 months ago

      15 factions = mostly AIPAC recipients.

      That lobby group primarily funded by Republicans.

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      4 months ago

      You’re not wrong, but so are Republicans. That’s the nature of a 2-party system and why it basically doesn’t work.

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        4 months ago

        Yes and no.

        Fear and Hatred run the Republican Party, and unites them.

        You have idiot outliers like the Log Cabin republicans who, for whatever fucked up reason (its money. its always money) chose to align themselves, and you’ll have the occasional group break away briefly from the groupthink.

        But when it comes to the polls, they are a pretty unified bloc.

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      Yes, beset by a mountain of conflicting interests and decades of infighting and ideological purity testing. Most Democrats are terrified of taking stances on wedge issues because any stance they take could break up a coalition that has all the durability of a Faberge egg. Republicans either don’t have this problem, or they don’t have it as bad. Despite having as many if not more factions than the Left, they all value loyalty and in-group cohesion, which allows them to come together every 4 years to form a unified voting bloc.