Beautiful!

Now, add some marionette strings to both parties, connect those strings to a billionaire's hand and it will be a perfect representation!

With their proposed ideas, I'd mostly agree.

However, with the increasingly shittier Republicans they have compromised further and further into utter shit. They've tacked toward shitty, pretty hard in some cases, to try to lure some shitty votes their way... alienating those who want less shit. They've opted to take money from extremely shitty people because they have a lot of money but those people desire there to be more shit. The Democrats abandoned their less shitty ground repeatedly even when they managed to find some real leverage, unleashing torrents of shit for no apparent reason (unless they actually want more shit).

So yes, their campaign websites have a lot less shit on them than the Republicans, but in practice the party as a whole has either pushed for things to be much shittier or compromised their alleged ideals unnecessarily resulting in things being much shittier.

There are certainly diamonds in the shit. I don't think it's all of them, but current leadership is definitely way more shitty than they look. What concerns me is that every time we get rid of some small contingency of Democrats that are obviously bathing in shit and willing to open the floodgates for the Republicans, we always seem to find just enough of the remaining Democrats wiling to dive in and replace them. It gives the impression that, for a significant subset of them, their campaign slogans and alleged ideals are performative.