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Deleted my other comment, it was too dismissive. You do have something real to say.
This is just... not true? If your thoughts make you stray further from reality, you are not thinking, you are deluding yourself. Thinking should create understanding, which can only actually exist in alignment with reality. This is as opposed to the oversimplified, ideal-based thought pattern that I was arguing against myself in my previous comment.
I vote left because they support good policies, I don't choose my policies because they align with the left. Voting democrat measurably makes things better or less worse (pick your poison) than voting republican, so I vote democrat and express my opinion for what type of democrats should run by voting in the primary.
Again, this is exactly the sort of vagueposting vibes based thinking that should be avoided. Why must these parties remain equal and opposite aspects of the negative traits of reality? What mechanism would enforce this dichotomy?
Anyways even if that was true, one side still runs the country better than the other, by basically all available metrics. They also tend to agree with my beliefs and are likely to make decisions I think will improve the world.
Skipped responding to some stuff because it was reacting to things I didn't say or don't care to comment on.
Go and observe a tree, and then compare your experience to the word "tree" in your mind. Even among the same species, of the same age, in the same area, each tree is absolutely unique. Its shape is different, its size is different, its texture is different, even its energy differs - and for those billions and billions of unique and individual lifeforms on earth you have the word... "tree".
Then there's thinking about right and wrong which is infinitely more complex.
Thinking has no connection to reality.
Anyone that goes along with the two party system just endlessly postphones any real societal change. And what do people who want the status quo to remain always say?
"Obviously you can see that we can't change that right now, but if you support where we are for this election, surely we'll get to what you want one day!" How long have they promised this? These are the words of every exploiter ever, and it never ends.
It's not vagueposting, you want to discuss right and wrong and you don't know Jung? You're doomed to fail no matter what you do.
On your last point you're once again arguing for the lesser evil, which will perpetuate evil until the end of time.