asserting that both Republicans and Democrats are "the same" sure does give a hell of a pass to how extreme and radical Republicans have gotten in the last 20 years
like if you have actually been paying attention, Democrats have been shifting leftward in a more steady pace, Republicans took a SHARP turn right and didn't look back a couple decades ago and have gotten more and more unhinged to the point where even uber-conservatives like LIZ CHENEY get called RINOs. Like, Liz is as intensely conservative as you can fucking get and yet, still not conservative enough for modern Republicans because they have shifted into actual authoritarianism
when one party is openly advocating authoritarianism and the other party has spent the last decade trying to get people more health care.... THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Or even close to each other. And you are letting violent radicals off the hook every time you assert this.
democrats are capable of seeing the writing on the wall and getting on the right side of history. democrats can be persuaded. Barack Obama said he believed marriage was between a man and a woman when he was running for president and before the end of his second term he codified same-sex marriage into law because democrats can be reasonable.
republicans are fucking insane. there are people who are so far-right that they call Mitch goddamned McConnell a RINO. Mitch "i got so upset that an uppity black man dared to be elected president that i'm gonna block his supreme court picks" McConnell isn't hard-right enough for these fucking fascists.
anyone who goes on about how they're the same is a "how do you do fellow leftists" style GOP plant
