. However, saying that on a fundamental level they are somehow different from Republicans is extremely far-fetched and naive to me.
It's a very common idea, but if you look at voting patterns of rep vs dems, there is a very clear difference. Dem party has shitload of problems, but it's miles better than republicans. Obamacare was very flawed, but it was step into right direction, uninsusured people went from 44.3 to 28.2 mil. After trumps changes - it is projected to grow 24% by 2029. Iran deal was AMAZING, it's insane that they managed to negotiate it so favorably, it has decreased world conflict and obviously, trump fucks it up. In terms of abortion rights - republicans and especially trump is pandering to fundamentalist evangelicals (he has 75% approval rating from then), in roe vs wade overturn there is very clear distinction. In terms of ICE there is clear differencde, gun control etc etc.
No. They are not the same.
They both suck, as a Canadian Universal Health-care WORKS!, yet you Americans just seem to love doing things the hard and confusing way.
Both Republicans and Democrats pander to the rich, all other pandering is in service to the goals of the rich. Your political system is a failure, it was a failure before Trump, it's a, Failure now, and unless you reform it will continue to be a massive failure.
And both Democrats and Republican Presidents and Governors are at fault, because none of them fixed the health-care system, and no Obamacare wasn't a fix, it had it's own problems, it was a bandaid, not a solution.
And now you are were you are, in the midst of a disaster, each side pointing fingers at each other when the truth was both sides had a chance to creator a modern, public health-care system, and decided nacking the rich was more important.
Canada 131 deaths, the United States has over 5,000, which even accounting for population size differences (the US has roughly 10 times Canada's population), is absolutely huge. And Trump only gets so much of the blame.
Sorry but seeing a pissing contest between Republicans and Democracts over whose shitty useless system would have been better when there was a PROVEN model that has saved lives is more then I can bare, while watching neighbours to the south disintegrate before my eyes into chaos.
Meanwhile we can look forward to Biden and Trump accusing each other of being a rapist without trials during future debates, and competing on who can protect the rich from universal healthcare at the expense of your citizens faster.
