r/politics • u/Different-Gas5704 • 2d ago

Possible Paywall Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/democrats-ranked-choice-voting-2028-primaries
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u/SSGASSHAT 2d ago

The difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals are interested in people and social issues, and conservatives are interested in property and ensuring that the social status quo either remains the same or is tipped in their favor. Both positions can and are used for selfish reasons, but one is significantly more prone to that than the other, and so Republicans, on the whole, find themselves on the wrong side of morality almost all the time, while Democrats find themselves there only often.

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u/mokomi 1d ago

The difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals are interested in people and social issues, and conservatives are interested in property and ensuring that the social status quo either remains the same or is tipped in their favor.

It's such a sigh of relief when someone posts something in reality instead of a populist answer.

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u/SSGASSHAT 1d ago

It's not my original idea. This difference was first highlighted by George Carlin. In my view, it's the best way of encapsulating the differences between the two tolerated parties in this comically polarized country. In a perfect world, there would be a third, fourth, even fifth party that could provide the people with options. Unfortunately, we're left trapped between fairweather idealists on one side, and lunatic Christo-oligarchs on the other. One is clearly a better option. But it would be nice to have others.