I appreciate what you’re getting at but, in my circles anyway, what you describe is specifically limited to Repubs. So your statement (to me) comes off as another bit of “both siderism.”
Anytime I’m phone banking or otherwise practicing activism or, heck, just trying to have a conversation with Uncle Fuckwit, I’m not doing the “us against them” thing. I’m talking about policy that effects all our lives. It’s my fox-watching, T-loving relatives who make it into a game of sport, like you mention.
I’m not denying it might be happening, but overwhelming evidence I see points to the majority of that blame being easily placed at the feet of one of our 2 dominant parties. And it’s not the one I vote for.
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