Yes, but…

Only one party is openly discussing civil war.

Only one party is so disorganized that it’s attempting to tank its own border deal.

Only one party hates women enough to criminalize people that try to help them by driving out of state for abortions.

Only one party has MAGA idiots.

Only one party supports a candidate who has joked (but not really) about being a dictator, that literally uses Nazi rhetoric word for word, and engaged in insurrection. Defenders don’t deny that he engaged in destructive activities on Jan 6, instead they question the meaning of insurrection.

Oh, and only one party is actively disinterested in government when they get elected. Members of the party don’t even know what to campaign on because they don’t do anything.

But yeah, totally the same.

Honestly this was true for large parts of USAs history, but that hasn’t been the case for a while now.

In truth our democrat and republicans reps have almost no similar voting history, they vote the opposite of each other on almost every issue.

Below is a good visualization of what I mean. You can see that from the 50’s to the 80’s, there was really quite a bit of voting overlap by the parties, so during that period, you’d be right, both parties could be consider the same or similar.

But for the last 30 years or so, democrats and republicans have had very little overlap on what they vote in favor for. It’s party line votes on almost everything.

So how people can say “both parties are the same”, when they vote the opposite on almost everything is beyond me.

And that’s not even taking into account executive actions, like for example for the last 50 years or so every democrat president has provided contraceptives as part of foreign aid, and every republican has not.

We may not have options in terms of political parties to choose from, which I agree is bad, but saying both parties are the same is to be willfully blind.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/23/a-stunning-visualization-of-our-divided-congress/

Well BadActorLol, I’m not overly convinced that you’re being a good actor, and therefore aren’t looking for meaningful discussion.

After reading your comments on this and other posts. I can only come to one conclusion you are a troll.

On some things they’ll do the same. On others it will be drastically different

Don’t forget you can easily block a user by clicking on their username and then clicking the block button.

This is one of those posts that make we wonder “idiot or Trump supporter?”

Is this an unpopular opinion?

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