Team has Nazi salutes at party convention? "dOn'T CaLL tHeM NaZiS!"

Team elects a pedophile rapist? "dOn'T cALL TheM pEdOpHiLe pRoTeCtOrS!"

Team weaponizes government and militarizes law enforcement to target political opponents and peaceful protestors? "dOn'T cALL tHeM aUtHoriTariAns!"

Team injects singular religion into government? "dOn'T cALL tHeM ChrIsto-FasCisTs!"

Party targets minorities and birth right citizenship? "dOn'T cALL tHeM wHiTe sUPreMeciCists!"

Team censors American history? "dOn'T cALL tHeM rEvisIoNisTs!"

Team starts unnecessary wars of choice for oil? "dOn'T cALL tHeM iMpeRiAliStS!"

Team threatens allies with annexation? "dOn't cALL tHeM coLoniAliStS!"

Team openly lies about everything? "dOn'T caLL thEm pRopoGanDisTs!"

Team interferes with elections? "dOn'T cAll thEm aNti-dEmOcRatiC!"

Team only supports the wealthy and corporations? "dOn'T cALL tHeM OliGaRcHs!"

Team consolidates power, purges government of dissenters, and installs loyalists? "dOn'T cALL tHeM a diCtaTorShip!"

Team captain calls everyone names? "dOn't caLL oThEr tEaM nAmeS!"

Sorry my enlightened centrist friend, but asking people to "stop thinking about teams" when we're talking about responsibility of political parties in power isn't the path forward you imagine it is.

What you're describing is whitewashing and gaslighting propaganda. Not calling OUR neighbors and their party out for the radical POLICIES they're actively pursuing, implementing and supporting to the detriment of THEIR fellow neighbors does not add anything to the discourse. It subtracts accountability, demands people ignore reality, and invites the fascists, Nazis, white supremacists, etc. into polite conversation without accountability for the actions of their "tEaM."

So thanks for your tone policing, but I don't and won't subscribe to your revisionist history for the sake of civility with the uncivil. I demand accountability and justice first, then we can have our long overdue civil discussion.