[istorical]

Yeah the ugly truth is that both the democrats and the republicans are often right. Social welfare and public spending is important and needed, and social welfare and public spending is also atrociously mismanaged. But we conveniently pretend the other side doesn't have a point on this because admitting they are right would weaken our own position.

[api]

As a result we often get the worst of both worlds, like the US healthcare system which combines everything bad about socialized medicine with everything bad about privatized medicine.