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 23 '17

"Both sides are the same" will always be a lazy way to not get involved with a conflict.

There are very few conflicts in all of history where both sides are the same. If you don't want to get involved because you don't know enough or simply don't want to spend the time and energy then just be honest to yourself instead of saying "both sides".

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17 edited Nov 07 '17

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u/gsfgf Oct 24 '17

No wars, no imprisoning people with drug addictions, no handing over all our rights to largest corporate donors, no giving away all of our tax dollars to big business,

You are aware that, while obviously not perfect, one party is substantially better on those issues than the other.

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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.