Two-Party Sameness Debate
Comments debate whether US Democrats and Republicans are fundamentally similar or distinct, often critiquing 'both sides' arguments, partisanship, and the illusion of choice in the two-party system.
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Please don't make this into another democrat vs republican issue. They may be using different language but both parties are essentially the same when it comes to the things they actually do.
More indication that the Democrats and Republicans are just a face/heel arrangement.
You're probably going to get downvoted because "both sides are the same" but they really aren't. Only one party is doing this.
It's being downvoted because it ignores the same issues on in the Republican party. Anyone who thinks either party is some monolithic blocks that all votes the same way hasn't been paying attention.
It's helpful to look past the illusion of the two parties and realize that most of the politicians in each party are more on the same side in the big picture stuff than not.
“ The Republicans and Democrats alike are guilty of such behavior.”This isn’t a useful line of thinking. We can and should draw distinctions between the two parties. They aren’t the same. Pretending they are just muddies the waters.
> Thinking that your "team" is the good guys and the other are the bad guys is exactly why politicians get away with this. There is nuance in the world.This is really annoying to me /because/ I'm a liberal -- I sometimes /wish/ the more liberal in Congress would be more of a "team," but they're just /not/.And it /really/ pisses me off when people both sides the current political climate, because you have -- on Republi
Everything is not partisan it might be political. The Republican vs. Democratic is hurting the US badly you can not continue to make everything ok just because you need the support from whatever extreme views is populist in your party.Most of the things a party does is not extreme but you guys are going insane over there.
Given this vote was split along party lines this smells of whataboutism.
Yes you are being partisan and not seeing how the D's do the same things. If I wasn't on mobile I'd explain more in detail, but essentially its a corruption, oligarchy, corporatacracy problem that transcends parties.