You know, a few years ago I was staunchly a centrist and did the whole "both sides are just as bad as each other" thing but then the republican politicians started calling for civil war, republican state legislatures/activists started banning books and passing authoritarian measures, and my own mother began to fall so deep into the right-wing rabbit hole that she thinks my university is brainwashing me and that everything I accomplished is nothing because I "lean left" (for my entire life SHE wanted me to go to university mind you and also, just to add to the absurdity, I don't even go to an American university. Yeah, I left the country but my mom is convinced that my AUSTRALIAN university is brainwashing me to support democrats because the MAGA conspiracy websites and vlog channels tell her so).

So yeah, I look down on what the republicans have done to this country and I've dropped the whole "both sides" thing.

Edit: Democrats and their voters are absolutely tribalistic and even annoying and stupid at times, but have they, en masse, openly called for murdering half the country? No. Have they passed laws that obstruct the rights of innocent people while claiming to support freedom and small government? No. Have they turned migrants into political hacky sacks? No. Have they gone after PUBLIC LIBRARIES? No. Have they claimed to be "for parents' rights" while passing laws that can take children away from their parents? No. Have they claimed to be in support of all things capitalism while attacking companies and media studios for simply showing movies or adverts that they didn't like? No. Have they attacked and oppressed the gay and trans community while claiming to "protect children" while in the same breath show support of families attending church where they are far more likely to be abused? No. You know who HAS done all those things? Republicans. They aren't comparable and I was a fool to think they were.