>Both sides are guilty to some degree, but, and this is the crucial point, not to the SAME degree.

Yep, those other guys are way more polite as they destroy the future of my country for their own short term gain! If only they could rule some cities or states exclusively for decades I'm sure we'd see the kind of America that we all deserve exemplified at the local level!

One side wants to bleed government out with a thousand cuts, drown it in a bathtub and then shoot it in the head, and is willing to commit ̶t̶r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶ light sedition to get what it wants, whereas the other side seems terminally allergic to any exercise of its own power on the rare occasion it can seize any.

But hey, at least they find common ground in being in the pocket of corporate interests.