'Both sides' is a farce.

[kpete]

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Exactly and precisely.

Only one side works to manufacture obstacles to voting.
Only one side works to take long-held rights from people.
Only one side contrives to suppress entire blocs of voters.
Only one side bans books that threaten their extreme ideology.
Only one side buys up and hollows out local media to extend their propaganda.
Only one side uses bullying and terroristic threats to intimidate election workers, prosecutors, teachers, and court staff.
Only one side tirelessly tries to defund and dismantle public education.
Only one side robs the poor to feed the insatiable greed of the obscenely wealthy.

Democrats work for the betterment of every life.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Well said! If we had a greatest comments forum, you'd be in it!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Thank you for your kind words.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Both sides do it

Is said by liars who know it’s not true. Said by people who value mendacity. Said by people who are afraid of liberty and Justice for all. Said by people who work hard hurting fellow citizens but are too lazy to do the right thing. Said by people who are fine with abandoning rational thought.

[spanone]

3. K&R

[japple]

4. Speaker Pelosi ran a tight ship. She was in charge and everyone respected

her and stood behind her (at least her caucus did.) They might not have always agreed with her, but at least they held together and were able to accomplish a lot in spite of the idiot squatter in the white house.

[hay rick]

6. "Both sides" arguments always excuse support or tolerance for Republicans. nt

[jaxexpat]

10. "Both sides" arguments and media reporting exist only to serve the GOP.

They're never deployed to defend the Progressive POV.

[republianmushroom]

7. Yup, correct statement.

[Martin Eden]

8. More than a farce, it's journalistic malpractice.

I suspect it's much worse than a misguided attempt to be "fair and balanced" -- but if that's all it is, there's nothing fair about presenting a very inaccurate narrative to the public while giving short shrift to very real dangers.

[betsuni]

9. I'm still angry about an article I saw days ago, "After a Hospital Refused Her Emergency Abortion Care,

Biden Administration Rejected Her Complaint" (Jezebel). Trying to both sides abortion!

And blaming "capitalism" for everything wrong in the U.S. is both siding, as if both parties have the same economic policies. It all encourages cynicism and not voting or voting for third parties.

[Wild blueberry]

11. Only one former national party is now a Death Cult

[MontanaMama]

12. The media plays a huge part in propping up this narrative.

MSNBC included. NPR been does it from time to time.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. You can thank

Newt Gingrich and his "Contract On America" for the birth of the "both sides" Bullshit...........

For simplification, what the Uber Rich Republicans want, is a return to the days of the "Robber Barrons" and the "Gilded Age".
A time in history where the top tenth of one percent ran roughshod over the continent, free from any and all rules, orregulations what-so-ever.

They created the great depression and the dust bowl, and they still, to this day, LOATHE FDR for taking America out of that disaster.

[Skittles]

14. damn straight

but journalists have not done a good job explaining this