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The "both parties are the same" thing is one of the most successful right-wing talking points ever, just after "conservative parties are more fiscally responsible".
That's very true. I would love it to be arguments between progressive and normal democrats vs democrat vs fascist republican, but that's not the world we live in. I'm angry at the voters, there is no way they didn't know what they were voting for this time.
I would love to see some new form of having arguments that prevent all that going in circles with the same arguments reappearing again and again. Possibly even one where it matters less if you don't think of just the correct way of phrasing it in the moment because the arguments can be refined in place and extra info like evidence added later, something like a wiki with a graph of common political arguments.
Somehow I feel the form of our public discourse, both within the various camps and in greater society, is in large part to blame for the state our political systems are in today. Sound-bites, tweets, short videos at best, headlines. Nuance is required for a lot of modern problems and it just isn't there.
Lemmy is the best I've found so far even though the Russians and other trolls are here. The trolls are the only ones using shitty tactics and trying to guide the conversations with what they post. Most people here see it because we're refugees from the bad place. Like the convo we're having would have been downvoted to hell and back while trying to start a fight anywhere else.