“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
This is just my personal opinion, but this seems like a misrepresentation of what we see in reality. A bunch of groypers plugging into the US treasury is bad for many people, I agree. What I think is a misrepresentation is the idea that while they do these wild things and sometimes get stopped, many times they 1. Don’t get stopped at all. 2. Whatever action that would stop them gets tied up in court for years so they do this fucked up shit for a while and do the damage 3. They get stopped quick but the damage is done and boundaries get pushed.
What people are saying when they say the democrats are controlled opposition, is that they don’t even attempt to take these drastic actions for the relatively “good” things they say want to do but never do. Could the Biden admin have used its powers to materially fight against the abortion bans? Or do something actionable about student loans? And I don’t even want to get into foreign policy. What we see in reality is that they are not willing to bend anything to do what they want to, while they watch the other party do fucked up shit for years. And the truth seems to be, actually they don’t ever intend to do anything good for people, they barely try.