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Kind of funny to see an article from Salon complaining about both sides when they regularly publish articles decrying the media for "both sides" rhetoric.
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 >

"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?!?!?!" >

So now we have a chance to fix it. This was the only good thing to come out of Trumps presidency. I knew his clumsy stupid ass would break the government. >

We have a chance to fix it, indeed. This means we everyday citizens need to do more than just vote. We need to stay vigilant, informed, and unafraid to critique even those we vote for and support. That last part is the same as critiquing your bestie who may be making questionable decisions for themself and for others. It’s what a good friend does and when it comes to politics, it’s what a good citizen does. 
We need to listen, not to respond, but to learn to those with whom we may initially disagree with or with those whom we may not look nor live like. We need to remain curious. 
We need to find ways to stay active whether it’s focusing on altering hearts and minds within your own personal circle of influence or volunteering to do so with organizers. 
We need to relentlessly flood our representatives with letters, emails, phone calls, etc. to voice our concerns. We need to do so for the things that affect us directly and for those things which affect our neighbors directly. 
We need to question everything and vet sources but not choose one vetted source alone to pull information from. We need to not be afraid to call off from work to attend/organize a peaceful protest and/or donate funds to worthy causes enacting real change (in both instances; for those who can afford to). 
We need to question everything and never catch our hands warming beneath our seats. To enact real change and to influence current leadership to do as such, it takes way more than a visit to the ballot box at minimum every 2-4 years; BUT voting is still a vital component to all of this. >

Agreed. In a nutshell, we need to run for local office. >

We have entered the WWE phase of the America experiment >

Who knew National Enquirer would become the newspaper of record for the US right, and The Onion become prophecy? >

7-ish years AFTER Trump descended the golden escalator, and the author believe US politics has just become a circus? So bold. What other keen insights can we expect from such a penetrating mind? >

We gotta wait for his rubles to clear swift probably. >

Only on the right. Democrats have really cleaned themselves up as the left moves on from Twitter's racially-aligned anger politics and to transformative, deployable policy. The right isn't. Which is a fancy way of saying that Trump will become a literal clown during his 2024 campaign, surround himself with strippers, and do another preformative March On Democracy to Take America Back et cetera while Biden, workers, and normal people quietly watch the police arrest them all.
Republicans forgot why people liked them: stability and predictability. Chaos doesn't win elections. The clown car will crash itself on the steps of the capitol and America will ascend into a new era of rational politics.