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Riff McClavin's avatar

Boy, I had a bellyful of this during the 2016 election. Any discussion where I criticized Trump would automatically trigger assumptions that I was a Clinton supporter, and vise versa. I despised both, for sometimes overlapping reasons.

It's hard -- and tiring -- in any given context to always include both sides. Some folks dump on Jimmy Dore because he spends so much time trashing democrats. But the idea that the republicans are no real alternative is a given, so they aren't mentioned as much.

Some folks actually do believe that most of what's wrong rests with one party, so it never hurts to ask, just as you're doing.

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