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So there are only Liberals of the type that aren't interested in equality and no other ones?
I am not a fan of the USA democratic party atm (Bernie would have been great, but yeah...) but it sounds like a bit of a false dichotomy that all liberals don't care about social issues.
Some socialists are very authoritarian so there's no guarantee that groups that are against class warfare uphold social liberties either.
JWestland
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Your two examples of why Democrats are the good guys are pretty easily debunked. The Democrats make a show of promoting free healthcare when in fact what they are promoting is a humiliating means tested paperwork exercise. I don't doubt that they would prefer people not to die but then what good capitalist wouldn't want to maintain a surplus of healthy workers in a low wage economy?
Labour's problem isn't really comparable to the Democratic Party. The Democrats' problem right now is that they remain incapable of accepting that they handed the presidency to Trump by not standing for anything. The reason they won't stand for anything? Because their campaigns are paid for by the financial sector, the military industrial complex, the pharma industry etc etc. The US is desperately hurting for a party that genuinely represents working people - the Democrats will never be that.
Honestly I see where you're coming from but we're so far beyond being able to entertain best-worst arguments that they're really not worth having. Why wouldn't Hilary commit to a meaningful minimum wage increase, or to an actual universal healthcare programme, or to de-escalating US imperialist projects overseas? It's because they are following the money, just like Trump. They're just better at hiding it.
Any assertion that the FBI can be a force for justice is, as you put it, not worth the trouble to respond to.