Asymmetrical Polarization
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Vox made a really good video showing how Republicans have moved more extreme and more obstructionist than Democrats and how the media and other people make a false equivalency that both parties refuse to work together:
This has been a very crucial political poison that allows Republicans to get away with obstructionism. People need to start addressing and correcting these false equivalencies.
I know from experience most people, through apathy and ignorance, default to a middle ground of "both parties do the same thing" and use this narrative to further their lack of participation in the system. Now, when Americans have seen how extreme the sexual assault, racist, violence inducing Republican party is, is the time to start correcting these false notions. We need to be educated about the premise so we can make educated arguments specifically about asymmetrical polarization. We can't combat Republicans on the false notion of even ground; this must be established when making arguments.
Has anyone else had experiences like this? I feel like I hear false equivalencies all the time. I've used the argument 'Democrats passed the ACA, Republicans spent almost a decade and millions of dollars trying to repeal it with no alternative'.
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He has to book people for his Sunday show Meet The Press, and the Republicans won't play along if they think Todd will sandbag them. On his daily show he's careful to not play favorites, but I don't think it's the same thing as "both-sides-ism." Todd is smart enough to avoid the right-wing bullshitters, and I give him credit for that. He'll never be called a liberal, but I haven't seen him favor right-wingers either. He's middle of the road, and that vexes a lot of DUers I guess.
