It's wild to think how for a moment there, Bernie represented some attempt, however minor in policy, to say, "Hey, maybe we could not try to be as reactionary as possible?" And then the democratic party was like, "No, that's a terrible idea. Everyone drop out and support Biden. We're just going to say he's a reformer instead of electing an actual reformer, while we commit genocide." Then election rolls around this time and they're like, "Yeah, Dick Cheney endorsement, woohoo. We're such reformists in the democratic party. Anyway, if you think this is weird and criticize it, you're on Trump's side." Like they continuously rejected any attempt to have the party be less like their supposed contrasting, different party, and then they're all "you're being misleading and helping the other guy win" when people point it out. The performance of the dynamic seems something like: the democratic party moves further 'right', getting closer to the republican party, then the republican party goes 'ew, we're not like those dems' and moves further 'right' than that to get away from them. And it just repeats like that. But in practice, I'm not convinced the reality is as different as the performance even makes it out to be. I think in reality, it's more like overt and covert brand of the same stuff.