Both Sides Don't

One of the worst aspects of Both Sides-ism is the current notion of "polarization" and "tribalism" - that the two major parties have both moved to the "their respective political extremes".

They haven't.

They. Have. Fucking. NOT.

Asymmetrical polarization has shifted the window so far to the right that when we try to steer back toward the middle, it gets characterized as an extreme effort by the lefty extremists to move us way too far to the extreme left and turn us into an extremely leftist version of communistically horrible horribleness.

People who lean to the Dem side are not "tribalized" in the same way as those who can't see that the Repubs are possibly the real threat to the very freedoms they squawk so loudly about all the fuckin' time.

This is definitely a problem of deliberate dysfunction created and maintained by disinformation on the part of the practitioners in the dark arts of propaganda, but it's also a very disturbing indication that those practices are succeeding in making way too many Americans complacent, &/or unable to discern between fact and fiction.