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"DEY BOTH DA SAME... one is filled with contrarian assholes who want to bring us back to the days of the founders, where they can own and kill brown people or steal the fruits of their labour with impunity. the other wants to incrementally make things better. WHY CAN'T THEY GET ALONG?!?!?!"
Oh cool, if the top image is any indication they're lumping biden in with the republicans. What a bad faith false equivalency
Oh the 2nd sentence:

The Squad and the Progressive Caucus have no more intention of fighting for universal health care, workers' rights or defying the war machine than the Freedom Caucus fights for freedom

What a bunch of bullshit
So who exactly is Chris Hedges?

Hedges hosted the television program On Contact for RT America from 2016 to 2022.[2][3]

Oh. From Russia, with love. >

This was my exact sentiment reading the article. Why is Salon publishing blatant propaganda? It's complete trash. BoTh SiDeS are evil! Straight from Putin's KGB playbook.

Growing obscenely rich, the ruling oligarchs have deformed national institutions, including state and federal legislatures and the courts, to serve their insatiable greed.

Are we discussing America or Russia? Putin would have you believe both nations are exactly the same. Which they certainly are NOT. >

May I please ask which part of your included quote do you disagree with? >

I disagree with the implied false equivalency. >

I can't  see any false equivalency in the quote. >

Which is why I said implied. By not separating the discussion between democrats and Republicans and just lumping them both into 'the government', especially in the further context of this article, he is false equating the two. >

Read the quote I'm  replying to ... >

I did. >

Really? Where in that quote does it even mention  either side? It speaks of the mega-wealthy  gaming the entire system... so perhaps reread  it. >

Again, I said implied. >

Sorry, all absurd comes from the Republican party. Democrats are still sane and willing to govern. >

Democrats have a lot of problems, but compared to the sheer lunacy of the Republicans and the game being rigged against third parties, they are the only option >

I think  you nailed it. >

Framing this as a ‘both sides’ issue, as the first paragraph does, is intellectually dishonest and frankly, bullshit >

Wow salon. You usually don't publish articles this stupid. >

If you take “salon” as a reputable source to begin with, then that’s your problem. >

This is what monetized democracy looks like. >

Anything  that doesn't give the lions share to the mega-wealthy  simply  doesn't  get considered in the US  political  system. "By the people  ... For the people..." I wonder  what that's  like? >

Republicans are an endless carnival.  Notice once again the media fails to point this out., >

People seem to forget, there probably won't be a "media" as we understand it five years from now. Twitter will be lawn darted by Musk, Facebook will be doing videogames, cable will be killed by ISPs and broadcast TV will be hugely reduced when the FCC re-allocates more spectrum space to 5G+ and planned 6G services. Democrats seem able to bridge the gap but Republicans have no plans besides televangelism when this occurs. Which is what right-wing politics will devolve into by the end of the decade. >

More like a cheap horror house