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Yes let’s ‘both sides’ the two political parties.
That’s an intelligent and highly reasonable position to take given one party tried to overthrow the government in an attempted insurrection and the other didn’t.
Gosh golly gee, I really can’t separate them, they truly are as bad as each other!!!
How do you even attempt to both sides after Jan 6th and trump. Both siding now a days is like claiming the sun and the moon are the same.
This is stupid. If you can't tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats at this point, you're just hopeless.
1956
Pretty sure it wasn't that black and white back then.
We can tell the difference, but we learned from 2016 and 2020.
No changes.
Look
I know the Democrats are far from perfect.
Large parts of them are neoliberal, capitalistic and at least financially clear right-wingers. And they often do much less than they could when on power.
But DUDE! There is a huge difference between a centrist party that doesn’t fulfill what it promises and should do, and a literal fascist party trying to overthrow democracy and attempting a genocide at trans people, not even two mention their racism, homophobia and other horrible positions.
They are not one evil. There is one not very good party where many people can rightfully be disappointed and one literal nightmare horrible straight up evil party. They’re not the same.
The sad reality is that the minority groups will always be targeted. Culture wars and identity politics are distractions, the bigger picture would be coming together along class lines (workers vs. wealthy).
Looking at the long term, a person who was at the fore front of civil rights will help much more, not voting for the status quo.
Fascists are not stopped by lying to the public on how well Biden is doing. Which is what the democrats keep doing, at a certain point it will stop working.
Thank you for your input!
edit: words
Everyone is focused on the "both sides", no one is looking at how broken a non-preferential electoral system is.
Well, I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. Sure, none of them will implement radically progressive economic policies, they will indeed serve corporate interests and the PIC. From this regard, they can be deemed relatively similar, especially when you confront them with options that would be possible but are not championed by either (ex : universal healthcare). From other points of view, they have marked differences (ex : LGBT rights). In the end, although they can't be called the same, and the difference between them can mean life or death for people, I suppose we could say none of them display a strong commitment to emancipation and undying tries to corporate interests.
