Both sides do not remotely have comparable issues, so I'm definitely a liberal Democrat. The biggest problems among Democrats come from too much segregating & inbreeding with Republicans. The GOP is a flat-out Nazi party now closing in on restoring racist authoritarianism, which dominates US history
Yes, all GOPers & almost all white/lighter-skinned people of color Dems practice Nazi eugenics and agree with Hitler that light-skinned, inbred people are genetically superior to folks of the most genetically diverse ancestry. They wallow in light-skinned mediocrity and ignorance and feel superior.
One of my main areas of study happens to be World War II. Having studied the war extensively, I'm not quick to make comparisons to the Nazis. However, regarding the current GOP and Trumpism, one can't help but to make such comparisons. They HAVE gone all-out Nazi, and it's frightening.
Having studied WW II extensively, I'm very quick to note the similarity of FDR's heavily segregated military, which lynched black troops for interracial sex at a time of desperate need for troops, with their foes. Trump is indeed Making America Great Again. www.history.com/articles/how...
The US was born continuing the genocide, slavery & apartheid of its ancestral European Empires which stretched from Africa to the Americas. Those Empires plus the US killed far more people than the Nazis did.
The US was built upon the backs of enslaved peoples and the slave economy, built on land stolen from native peoples. Those are historical facts.
Those are facts rejected by the overwhelming majority of white Americans, plus the 25% or so of people of color in the GOP. Many if not most Democrats also have significant #MAGA misconceptions about these facts.
Not most of the folks I tend to talk to, but then I tend to avoid the misinformed and selectively blind of all political stripes. I have a small circle.
Patton was known for making racist and antisemitic remarks, holding racists and antisemitic views, and expressing pro-Nazi beliefs. Militarily, he was considered one of America's greatest generals, but personally he was an awful SOB (pardon the language, but when talking Patton, seems appropriate).
He was very representative of white Americans. Eisenhower wasn't much better at all. A Holocaust survivor told me that he was horrified by the way white troops treated the black unit which liberated his death camp. It reminded him a lot of the Nazis.
There was a reason expat black American artists flocked to Paris in the 1920s during the Harlem Renaissance. They felt freer to create in a country in which they suffered relatively less oppression than in their native country.
It's sad that black artists in the 1920s felt the need to leave the US and move to Paris in order to more freely express themselves, but again, that's one of those uncomfortable historical facts of American history. The racism and racial oppression prevalent in the US drove that exodus.
US scientists were among those who played roles in the Eugenics Movement that then influenced Nazi ideology.
That Nazi eugenics movement unfortunately continues to dominate Western culture. It's why Trump has rolled back the immigration reform of 1965. Trump has effectively returned the US to 'White America' racist immigration quotas. He's expelling visibly Native American and other nonwhite immigrants.
At the same time Trump is ethnically cleansing people of color, he's bringing in Nelson Mandela's jailers and other white South Africans as oppressed refugees. White South Africans are about 7% of the population there, but own 75% of land and 67% of wealth. To Trump that's oppression of whites.
No, not comparable issues (being liberal in ideology, I do typically vote Democrat), but there are issues nevertheless. A lot nowadays has to do with "purity", which, as an independently-minded person, bothers me. I refuse to walk lockstep with any one political group.
While there certainly is a purity issue, I see those leftist perfectionists as covert conservatives. They very disproportionately come from GOP families & communities. The same is true of the far more numerous "moderate"(i.e. conservative) Democrats. Moderates far outnumber purists.
I couldn't tell you which political party my working-class parents were affiliated with. It never came up. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm not strongly affiliated with any particular political party or movement. I'm more concerned with actual beliefs than political labels.
My parents were liberal Democrats. It came up a lot. I'm very concerned with those labels. They're quite meaningful.
I'm more concerned with peoples' actions and actual attitudes.
Actions and attitudes are quite correlated with the labels. For example, GOP voters elect nearly 100% mediocre, ignorant, racist, sexist white leaders, over 90% of whom are white men. They are ending democracy entirely.
They are. We've lost the republic.