Posted: Feb 08, 2021 4:50 pm
arugula2 wrote:The actual Dem party, and the actual Repub party, are the corporate mass in the middle. They differentiate themselves from one another with slogans and dog whistles, but they mostly agree on most things that affect most real people. Their grift works because humans aren't built for rational skepticism, and the useful idiots in the media and the twitterverse do most of the propaganda work for them (including feel-good memes).
They're not the same if you think black people should be allowed to vote.
They're not the same if you think women should have control over their own bodies.
They're not the same if you favor science over religion.
In short, they're not the same if you reject the notion that a country's "greatness" comes from its racial and religious composition.
Bothsidesism is tedious and intellectually lazy. Criticize the Dems all you want, god knows there is plenty to criticize, but don't tell me they're the same as Republicans because that is some bullshit. It's like saying the NSDAP and SPD of Germany 1930 were the same. Neither was perfect, but they were not the same. One was far, far, far worse than the other.