Minnesota recently used their tax on billionaires to expand education and provide free lunch to children so while the party isn't perfect they are not at all comparable.

What makes them so similar is first pass the post it guarantees a two party system and the practice of gerrymandering creating safe seats. The worst Democrats are the ones with the safest seats. If you want positive change start there.

Off the top of my head I can only think of Lieberman and honestly the ESRB was a reasonable compromise.

I’m not both sidesing, but both sides…

You're mostly correct, but Dems are not left in any political paradigm with the slightest awareness of the existence of non-American countries.