These two things are not the same.
On the subject of "sometimes there's only one side": That's a nice-sounding slogan, but when I drill into it, I see False Equivalence again.
So yes, there are two sides. One side is the decent human being side. The other side is the unrepentant unremitting unreasonable asshole side.
Both sides vote. One side votes (mostly) for Republicans.
And we should be talking about all the times we heard politicians of a certain stripe spending breath and energy yammering on about how we can't appease these rotten guys - Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Radovan Karadzic, Manuel Noriega - that if we don't shut them down (by force if needed), they'll be emboldened; they'll go further; and we'll pay a much higher price trying to stop them later.
Where the fuck are you this time, Republicans? Oh right, I almost forgot - they are you and you are them. There's not a dime's worth of difference between you and the knuckle-draggers you've been courting for 40 years with all that coded language. That's the GOP now. That's who you are, and I guess I should try not to be surprised by any of this.
Stop cowering, get back up on your hind legs and help us do something about it.
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