Yeahbut(TM) the lions share of the criticism of American government that takes place on sites like this one is not people looking at and evaluating the things t

Yeahbut(TM) the lions share of the criticism of American government that takes place on sites like this one is not people looking at and evaluating the things that happen in America but simply people repeating tropes to indicate membership of one tribe or another. You gotta go like five layers of comments deep before people making comments that are the result of substantive thought outnumber the people firing off tropes for virtue points.