Political Memes

This isn't entirely new or unique to America, but the dynamic is essentially:

Party A improves the odds fascism is successfully implemented.

Party B implements it.

Reducing the conditions for fascism to take hold is strictly off the table for both A and B.

Fundamentally changing the system of Party A (or B for that matter) through voting alone would at least require a Party C.

But even so it is the internal party politics prior to and outside of elections that are keeping this fascism paradigm in place. And that's where people's frustrations tend to lie.

Man fascists are delusional , scratch a liberal and all that...

I don't know that I've ever seen anyone say that both sides are the same. I have seen people (when talking about the US) call out when both sides do the same things, such as: Put forth rapists and child-killers as candidates, back a genocide, send people to torture prisons, refuse to fix the healthcare system, etc.

B is indeed worse than A, but I've seen too many people use that to pretend that one side is "actually good", instead of being able to see that both sides are bad.

There's those who commit unintended mistakes, then there's those who give in to the temptation of behaving badly in their moments of weakness, and then there's those who can't wait for any given opportunity to behave maliciously and justify it by saying they aren't the only ones doing it.

Hey, don't judge me for commiting ethnic cleansing! Hitler did it as well, after all! And that one single bad apple in your group is mildly racist as well, so you're no better!

"both sides"= a disengenious comment by conservative mainly also uses the same thing to say thier not as bad.