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You misunderstand. GOP breaks all rules and will literally do anything to win because their policy destroys peoples lives. They're the bad cops. Democrats have the slightly less destructive policies and they sort of occupy reality. They're the good cops. Both cops have the same boss.

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> GOP breaks all rules and will literally do anything to win because their policy destroys peoples lives.

Not only that, the current president literally promised everything to everyone - just to win! People are too naive (or too innocent) not to notice the lies.

Tbf, that's Athenian democracy at work - politicians would promise the most audacious things just to get elected. One could argue that's even how democracy started in the first place - just so that one guy could rule Athens independently and not as a Spartan puppet.

Of course, we haven't adopted the other facet of Athenian democracy which is ostracization by voting.

They are both dirty cops more like it.

It's assumed all cops are dirty. Good cops are few and far between as bad cops have incentive to get rid of them (so they don't snitch or do other 'good' things like police crime).

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