It is a false equivalence, and you just repeating it with more words and more appeals to emotion adds absolutely nothing of substance to this discussion. Your p

It is a false equivalence, and you just repeating it with more words and more appeals to emotion adds absolutely nothing of substance to this discussion. Your position of radical-simplification and reduction serves just one purpose: To let you off the hook for actually doing anything about anything, because "they’re all the same.” I’m not wasting a moment trying to convince you of anything: You cannot reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. But for the benefit of others: When we convince ourselves everything is the same, we fall into learned helplessness. Worse, we become complicit in the oppression we performatively complain about. The standard we look past is the standard we accept. We may think we're not looking past it by criticizing both parties in a way that suggests they’re identical, but in reality we're giving them a pass because our complaints aren’t actionable, and without understanding the ways both parties actually behave in detail, we cannot develop ways to create change. So. Yes, Democrats and Republicans are both part of the American power structure. In many cases they’re funded by the same oligarchs to pursue the same unjust principles. Yes, Democrats create and support policies that reflect conservatism, because America is founded on conservatism, and both parties are trying to uphold their vision of conservatism. But just because they’re both parties in a country steeped of conservatism doesn’t mean they’re the same. For example: Enforcing the collection of student loans, while bailing out bankers is conservatism. Police murdering black citizens at traffic stops with impunity, while felons are barred from voting is conservatism. Yes, it’s critical to see what they have in common. But also yes, it’s critical to see that student loan and wall street policies are not the same as policies that encourage violent white supremacists to get themselves a badge and a gun and carry out state-sanctioned genocide. And with that... Good day sir/madam/whatever honorific applies to trolls.