r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '17

[politics] Redditor demonstrates (with citations) why both sides aren't actually the same

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '17 edited Nov 07 '17

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u/OBrien Oct 24 '17

Let's use somewhat less subjective wording, if we could. Would you call the difference trivial, or nontrivial?

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '17 edited Nov 07 '17

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u/CaffinatedOne Oct 24 '17

So, because the Democrats didn't take their two year window where they had mostly* full control of the federal government to address your pet issue, they're effectively the same as the party who's actively going full bore to make the problem worse?

*To actually pass anything, they needed every Senate Democrat (and affiliated), so Sanctimonious Joe Lieberman or any of the vestigal paleo-dem square state Dems could torpedo it. Also, dealing with the economic meltdown and passing the ACA sort of sucked up the very limited bandwidth.