I feel like you're arguing with someone else whom you have mistaken for me...or you think that I am someone very different from whom I actually am. It just doesn't connect.

LH, I'l try to connect the dots for you. Here's a couple small examples of why I and others express irritation/exasperation at you:

Which means: you actually agree with me that people like us CAN'T really do anything about the basic situation...but in the meantime, you'd like to make yourself feel better by just doing a little re-arranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic...just so you can feel like good little progressive who are out there "doing something".

Which is rude bullshit. Or:

Here's a tip: As long as the mighty imperial $ySStem that really runs your country can keep you battling each other in a futile divide over the utterly illusory choice between voting for a corporate-backed Democrat or a corporate-backed Republican...it will have you right where it wants you. Helpless and in its pocket.

Which is ignorant bullshit. And defeatist bullshit. So don't give me your little Bambi-in-the-headlights "Why are you mad at me?" deal. As Bobert says, you need some new material. And you need to learn how to talk politely and individually to the people you're talking to. You are, as has been noted many times, smarter than that. Or else you're the dumbest smart guy around.

When do you begin to get it? One more time, join in on the chorus, boys,

Gay rights aren't a "futile divide over the utterly illusory choice" or "a little re-arranging of the deck chairs".

Reproductive rights aren't a "futile divide over the utterly illusory choice" or "a little re-arranging of the deck chairs".

Separation of church and state isn't a "futile divide over the utterly illusory choice" or "a little re-arranging of the deck chairs".

War isn't a "futile divide over the utterly illusory choice" or "a little re-arranging of the deck chairs".

Income equality isn't a "futile divide over the utterly illusory choice" or "a little re-arranging of the deck chairs".

And when you keep saying they are, you become a REALLY big part of the problem. Reducing these things to being equal with their opposite supports the people who are happy with the status quo. Supposedly independent thinkers who support the idea that the Republican ideas are the same as the Democratic ideas are worse than the blinkered Republicans themselves.

When you keep saying that black is the same as white in such rude terms, people not only see you as part of the problem, but as an unusually irritating part of the problem.

This is how it connects.