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by war1025 1987 days ago
> In any two-party environment where only _one_ party regularly _does_ proliferate bigotry and violent attitudes

Anyone who believes this is a true depiction of politics in the USA is willfully blind.

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The probability of both factions promoting bigoted/violent attitudes at precisely the same rate is, well, impossible. Inevitably there will be a higher penetration of these ideas in one side or the other.

I'm not making the claim that the balance is immutable (it's always changing), but at this moment (and for the past decade, at least) there is one side where those ideas are _far_ more widely seen as acceptable or encouraged.