[vezycash]

The last paragraph of Animal Farm by George Orwell reads:

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

My take:

Democrat and republican party are two sides of the same coin!

The parties shift, the faces change, but the game remains the same. Battles are waged in public, deals are made in private. Power is the prize, and blind loyalty is the sacrifice.

Allegiance is demanded, division is fueled. One side painted as righteous, the other as corrupt.

But no more! No more blind devotion. No more politics as theater while lives hang in the balance.

Judge not by party, nor by word but by action and how it affects you.

[getlawgdon]

Grown weary of the false equivalence here. No, a party that does not decry Nazis salutes is not the other side of the coin.

[achierius]

Sorry, is that all you have going for the Democrats? The Republicans might be worse, but they can both still be worth opposing.

[ljm]

I feel like political discourse would not be in the state it currently is if it wasn’t boiled down to a facile comparison between good (the party you support) and evil (the party you don’t support) and that, ultimately, neither of them succeed without being in collusion.

It’s very much a false dichotomy based on Hollywood superhero slop.

[watwut]

Yeah, no. Knee jerk both sides are the same was how republican actions and goals get euphemism away while democrats faults are exaggerated.

Systematically. There is no symmetry here.