One Issue Voters

Having little to no regard for whatever problems they must ignore or create in order to focus on the arbitrary issue they care about most, one issue voters are a significant contributing factor to the madness of contemporary politics.  It is often the case that, since the two dominant political parties in America usually have such conflicting stances on popular topics, one issue voters are also one party voters, which only compounds their stupidity.  Allegiance to any political party for its own sake or for the sake of any one issue is asinine; allegiance to reason and morality are all that can matter.

Moreover, the single issues many such voters focus on--like abortion, taxation, and homosexual marriage--are hardly the most important issues facing Western society one way or other.  Neither supporting conservatism nor supporting liberalism will consistently rectify any of the true problems surrounding these subjects as it is, but intellectual insects continue to associate their own wellbeing with a hypocritical party built on philosophical assumptions and inconsistencies.  Politics is one of the more socially acceptable ways to express emotionalism under the guise of pseudo-moralism.

Emotionalism is precisely the thing that generates and preserves political problems, however!  If everyone suddenly became a rationalist, many political issues would cease to exist immediately, and those which were left would be far easier to permanently erase.  One issue voting is just one of many ways that political emotionalism can poison a country, not that democracy or democratic processes are rational or morally required in the first place [1].  Arrogant, fallacious, and reeking of even moral stupidity, it will keep people from solving the very problems they care about unless they solve them by accident.

Utilitarianism is the only kind of framework that "one issue voting" is even philosophically consistent with--but this undermines the entire point of caring so much about any issue at all, as a moral issue must matter in itself, without regard for consequences or feelings, if it is objectively obligatory in the first place!  Ironically, many people who overvalue one political issue to the point of ignoring all others might endorse utilitarianism when their issue would be changed as they desire, but they often do think that the issue is objectively important in a moral sense.

If anyone truly wants to deliver a country from a crisis of ignorance, injustice, and philosophical apathy, voting for whoever has a certain stance on any single point of controversy is one of the worst ways to attempt doing so.  Neither major political party is philosophically sound, and no issue these factions clash over is worth embracing the follies, hypocrisies, and fallacies of either conservatism or liberalism.  When democracy itself is invalid due to treating matters of truth and political policy as if consensus dictates reality, a democracy full of voters that take nothing into consideration other than one (usually arbitrary) moral concern rots itself all the more.


[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2019/06/democracys-error.html