The first time I remember being told that our two major parties had “few major differences,” I was seated next to Ralph Nader on a plane for a story I was doing on him just ahead of the 2000 presidential election. He was the Green Party alternative to Al Gore and George W. Bush that year.
“A bumbling Texas governor would galvanize the environmental community as never before,” he said of Bush. “The Sierra Club doubled its membership under James Watt.”
Welp, we know how that turned out.
Our current president has repeatedly pushed another false equivalency – that our country is morally no better than any other. “We have a lot of killers; you think our country is so innocent?” Trump once said in defense of Vladimir Putin, after Bill O’Reilly stated the simple fact that “Putin is a killer.” As I’ve said before, Trump has since then worked hard to make that slur a reality, and has made us less innocent in ways I would not have thought possible.
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