Yeah, no. You can’t seriously claim that the present-day moderate Democrats are comparable to the Republicans of 2009. That sounds pithy and world-wise, but it’s just plain wrong, and repeating stuff like that doesn’t help anyone except, possibly, the Republicans.
And this sort of “bothsame!” stuff is not just inaccurate, it fosters cynicism and defeatism. If you want to argue that the Democrats should do more for the interest of people, that’s fair game. But any kind of fact-based comparison of what the Republicans on one hand, and the Democrats on the other, have been saying and doing when they’re in power shows that there’s a massive difference, and that Democrats definitely act in ways that are in the interests of the American people, whereas the Republicans don’t.
