If you look closer, I'm pretty sure a majority of us aren't really on a "side", think the whole situation is incredibly stupid, and wish the politicians would just shut up and actually...govern...instead of playing silly games and pandering to the crazy people (on either "side").

However, both the established parties seem to have become totally incompetent to do that, in very different ways. One party got taken over by people who make public statements on a daily basis that would have been immediately disqualifying at any time since 1950 or so. The other party is so bad at doing politics that they're beaten in elections despite running against those people.

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8note 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

both of your disqualifications are orthogonal to "actually govern"

that might be where youre running into problems?

	▲	wrs 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		The one that is better at governing is worse at politics. The system sort of assumes that will be the other way around.

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yandie 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I'm pretty sure a majority of us aren't really on a "side",

Many of us don't vote either. And our two party systems have created extreme partisanship. I wish it could be different because I do love this country, but our politics are so broken by the two party system, fueled with misinformation through these partisan news networks + social media algorithms (the way Youtube turns one person into an extremist of either side is an example...)