My response to a "there's no difference" friend

[Recursion]

Like you, I am a heterosexual white male with a good job. I, too, enjoy the privilege of being able to abstract away the differences between the two parties, because neither will ever attack me*. But not all people I care about have that luxury.

* not entirely true since I'm a veteran, and the GOP does shit on us. But it's more dramatic I think to just leave that out.

[Scuba]

1. Nicely done.

[Recursion]

2. A very dear friend called me out on this a few years ago

And it really reduced my tolerance for this whole argument. I'm unbelievably lucky to be in a place where Romney and Obama are largely similar to me.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Your sig line says it.

[zbdent]

3. So why change horses?

I mean, if there's no difference, then why would your friend hate Obama???

[surrealAmerican]

4. A lot of people use that "no difference" as an excuse ...

... not to vote at all. We sure could use their votes too.