Right, one side looks at the machine and says "this is bad, needs reform".. The other side says "this is not bad enough, I am running on making this worse, and

Right, one side looks at the machine and says "this is bad, needs reform".. The other side says "this is not bad enough, I am running on making this worse, and going to loudly broadcast how happy I am that I've made it worse". Seems quite different.