It’s only weird if you assume Democrats and Republicans aren’t both working for the same handful of billionaires and that all the culture war stuff they fight over is just window dressing to distract you from that simple fact.
Once you recognize that the purpose of the Democratic Party is not to govern, but to capture and neuter social movements dangerous to Wall St, and secondarily to give people enough faith in the system that they’ll keep voting and not revolting, then all the supposed contradictions make perfect sense.
It’s only weird if you assume Democrats and Republicans aren’t both working for the same handful of billionaires and that all the culture war stuff they fight over is just window dressing to distract you from that simple fact.
Once you recognize that the purpose of the Democratic Party is not to govern, but to capture and neuter social movements dangerous to Wall St, and secondarily to give people enough faith in the system that they’ll keep voting and not revolting, then all the supposed contradictions make perfect sense.