• @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      112 years ago

      It’s America. So it depends on the issue. Do you want guns? It’s Democrats. Do you want medicine, free speech, freedom from religion, the government to stay out of your bedroom, to be allowed to dress how you’d like… then it’s the republicans.

      • @jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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        42 years ago

        I have trouble saying the Democrats are overall authoritarian around guns, at least in terms of what’s getting proposed in the government as bills etc. Unless you count the current sort of rules around driving authoritarian in the states - because most of the proposed rules are similar to driving rules.

        And both parties are functionally authoritarian around medicine - it’s regulated to heck and back, often to the detriment of people, though I can’t say if the balance is saving more than it’s harming.

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          32 years ago

          Fair, but the democrats aren’t like banning modern medicine and driving obgyns and endocrinologists out of states. Yeah both insist on regulating medicine, but one wants abortion to be legal and bleach to not be medicine and the other disagrees on both points