freitasm:

 

When the American right spent years blocking every law submitted to congress, redesigned maps to allow only their own party to win, did not denounce mob attacks on the seat of the legislative and allowed a felon to be a candidate and president, I think there's a lot that is being ignored here.

 

But any staunch supporter of the American right will list off an equal number of things the left did that they don’t agree with.

Policies aside, I firmly the believe the left are just as bad as the right in terms of finger pointing and demonising the other side. Who is more justified depends on what side you ask. There’s a lot the Republicans (especially under Trump) have done that I disagree with, but I disagree with a lot of Democrat policies as well.

Trying to win a contest of who is worse is folly because it’s subjective.

If each side says it’s their opponent alone who needs to call for a lowering of temperature it will never happen. Both side needs to come to the party and say “we a lot of differences, but how we are dealing with those differences needs to change”. 

Both sides needs to swallow their pride a bit.