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YOU'RE SUPPORTING FASCISM BOTH WAYS EXCEPT ONE IS JUST SLIGHTLY SLOWER
Remember when the Democrats opposed the Patriot act? I do....n't.
It’s honestly exhausting watching people drag out the Patriot Act like it’s some ultimate "gotcha" to prove both sides are the same. Using a massive, fear-driven over-correction from 9/11 as the benchmark for how these parties actually operate is just plain ignorant.
Major attacks like that ALWAYS lead to over-correction because everyone is terrified and trying to look "tough," but if you look at the last twenty five years of what they’ve actually done, that "both sides" argument falls apart the second you look at the record. The Patriot Act is the fucking exception, not the rule.
Since 2001, Democrats have actually passed things that help real people, like the ACA, the Inflation Reduction Act - which was the biggest climate investment we’ve ever seen - and the American Rescue Plan that kept people from drowning during the pandemic. They’ve pushed for student loan forgiveness, the CHIPS Act to actually bring jobs back here, and they tried to expand the Child Tax Credit. These are substantive, life-altering policies. Even when they’re sitting at center-right, they’re still in a completely different universe than the GOP.
Meanwhile, the Republican "to-do" list is basically just tax cuts for the rich and packing the courts with lifetime appointments specifically to gut every bit of progress we’ve made. That’s it. That’s the whole platform.
Deregulation, stripping environmental protections, and killing financial oversight.
When they aren't busy passing tax breaks for billionaires, they are blocking everything else. They’ve blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, they blocked Build Back Better, and they’ve killed every single attempt at common sense gun safety or climate action. They don’t want to govern, they just want to dismantle the floor we're standing on.
Claiming the parties are the same because they both folded during a post-9/11 security panic is a lazy way to ignore two decades of completely opposite priorities. One side spends twenty years trying to expand healthcare and civil rights while the other side is obsessed with shrinking the state and blocking anything that doesn't involve a corporate subsidy.