[bre1010]

With all the usual caveats about first-past-the-post and the two-party system not offering a good range of choices in the US, this guy is pretty off the mark. Democrats and Republicans are meaningfully different choices and I tend to assume that anyone suggesting otherwise is (purposefully or not) helping Republicans -- who stand the most to gain from people cynically removing themselves from the political process (as when more people vote, Democrats win, since their values are actually more representative of the majority of Americans). Plus Republicans are currently psyching themselves up for another coup attempt, while Democrats are... not. So that's a pretty salient difference.

The reason I think this guy is a actually just a right-winger posing as "above the fray" is because anyone who actually thinks Republicans are more in favor of free speech than Democrats has either been taken by propaganda or is a purveyor of it themselves. Consider how many Republican-led states are passing actual laws (e.g. "Don't Say Gay" in Florida) that prevent people from talking about certain topics, presenting themselves in certain ways, or freely traveling between states. There is absolutely no equivalence to this on the left. Which is the say the right is both worse AND different from the left in America, unlike what this guy claims.

[bodiekane]

Except, the slogan "Don't say gay" was made up by people opposed to the legislation it refers to, and the actual legislation does not contain that line nor is it in any way representative of the contents of the bill. It looks like you might be a victim of misinformation (as was I, initially). You might be happily surprised if you read the actual legislation, at least I was, as a pro-LGBT rights person who was concerned based on misleading commentary about it I had read at first.

The "Patriot Act" was mostly increases to military and spying. The "Inflation Reduction Act" was mostly about domestic manufacturing and supply chain stability. Every political thing in America gets a misleading name by its sponsors and a different misleading name by its opponents.