Obama brought in free healthcare

Well that didn't happen. He brought us a Republican healthcare plan that cemented private insurance into our system and fined people who didn't have any. The public option got dropped because of captured senators refusing to vote on the bill unless it was removed.

I don’t think the “both sides are the same” argument is anything but propaganda

That's because you're not the one getting $50M in eye-gouging political ads between Jon Fetterman and Memet Oz, only to see them agree on practically every issue once the election is over.

The biggest gulfs in opinion tend to be internal party schisms. Mamdani, Eric Adams, and Andrew Cuomo duking it out in an ugly NYC Mayoral primary while the Republicans just heckel from the cheap seats. Or Eric Cantor losing his job as Majority Whip to an even more virulent Anti-tax Christian white nationalist.

It's not that Both Sides Are The Same, it's that each side is a fractal kaleidoscope of particular nuanced views. But the consensus that emerges across the national scene tends to be constrained by what corporate sponsors are willing to fund.

Lobbyists write the legislation. Legislators rationalize why they vote for or against it with their campaign jingoisms.

Both sides are pretty bad, but one is significantly worse than the other

The chair of the Democratic party just tried to secretly meet with a known fascist and white supremacist, not to mention constantly votes against universal healthcare, or maybe I should mention previous votes supporting warrantless searches. but okay, go ahead and tell me about when I had free healthcare, because I sure as fuck don't recall that happening.

Edit: dont even get me started on Israel. Calling these fuckers left leaning is an insult to pretty much every actually left leaning group in the US.

The Obama administration also put children in wire fence cages.

Trump is the worst because his predecessors were bad.

And we aren't even talking about foreign policy, we're talking about what has been going on on American soil.

There's is a thread that goes from Bill Clinton creating using the meme of the welfare queen to DOGE.