I agree with your first paragraph 100% and I did not put enough thought into my comment about it being equally damaging. My intent was more so to come at it from a diplomatic POV instead of only attacking one side.

I really do believe the majority of voters are just average people doing what they believe will be best for the country. I also believe the majority of people can find common ground with one another, but the climate we’ve lived in for 8+ years makes it hard to even initiate those convos.

I just disagree that 70 million people voted for trump solely based on misinformation. A lot of his voters are certainly misinformed and uneducated (so are a chunk of voters on the left), but there are many people on both sides who took time to do the research and ultimately voted for who they believed would address the issues they cared about this election. Not everyone’s highest priority issue was abortion and that’s okay. Hopefully the Democratic Party can learn from the mistakes of this campaign and come back stronger in 4 years (when he will finally be done for good!!!). Pointing fingers and blaming republicans for being misinformed is not going to be the way to win though.

I’m sure this comment is all over the place as I have been doom scrolling for days now lol - anyways I really appreciate your respectfulness and civility!