Yes, agreed on all points. The parent’s post is exactly what you expect to see happen when the point gets read strictly as being made through the lens of the fa

Yes, agreed on all points. The parent’s post is exactly what you expect to see happen when the point gets read strictly as being made through the lens of the false dichotomy of left/right, Democrat/Republican, etc. They construct an arbitrary measure which defends their in-group and then without prompting bring in an example of their out-group being worse. The broad point I was trying to make is exactly that government dysfunction is NOT tied to a singular political party’s attacks on the institution of government. It’s something deeper and more fundamental, represented in both parties.