To anyone who says both parties are the same: Fuck. You.

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And if you are reading, I've mentioned that twice. It was part of my example of hyperbole. You are actually reading what I've written right?

My point is once you get beyond your pedantry, and his hyperbole, what there is left is a real discussion about the disconnect between the voter and the candidate and how much of that is intentional on the part of the candidate. And that disconnect occurs "in both parties" and as such leave the impression with many that "both parties are the same".

Pedantry and hyperbole are the opposite sides of the same coin. Both are attempts to mis-characterize the situation either through a narrowing, or an extrapolation.

Most voters aren't policy wonks. They listen and project. It's not that candidates suffer that, it is that they COUNT on that. And that is where the "both sides are the same" finds its home.