I continue to strongly push back against this "#bothsidesism" claim, which I and many others have been tarred with by some posters on this forum, routinely, over the last few years. To me, this article seems to provide another example of how divergent opinions are between members here and the vast majority of the American public. And the conclusions in the article are not surprising to me at all. Many younger voters are not enthused about the two major parties, and are pessimistic about their future. They distrust the establishment, which they see as having ruined the country and led us into the crises we are now facing. And many people are repelled by the extreme rhetoric and by the hypocrisy of many of our politicians.
I get frustrated, and sometimes angry, at the attempts to portray the Democrats and Republicans as equivalent, or that they ought to be treated the same, because reasons.
I'm well aware that the Democratic Party is deeply flawed and imperfect, but they are attempting to retain the norms that kept out country working for most of the last century. The Republicans, in contrast, are actively destructive to the practice of functional government that limits abuses. Make no mistake, any vote that allows Republicans to win is a vote to destroy any rule of law in America, which will have horrific consequences.
