Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.
Here are some visual aids to accompany my clarification:
Surely it's the opposing team in the political theater that is to blame
Left: "We should have socialized healthcare, education, and housing."
Right: "We should have rent-seeking in healthcare, education, and housing."
You: "Both sides are the same."
Coming back and rereading this. I see that you used Left and Right rather than the R vs D show teams, that's my bad
Please don't confuse performance and policy. Obviously the Democrats must give pro-social concessions to stay in power and the Republicans are now all-in on performative cruelty but neither one will ever touch the structural cruelty inherent to our society.
That's true. The government of the USA is pretty fucked up in many ways and there isn't really a strong left wing party at all.
Sounds like you're confused about the teams
By all means enlighten me
US Democrats are not our kind of left. Hence why you should support actually left leaning candidates who present sound policy when possible.
I guess it sounds like we agree. This is the risk of snarky internet comments
I mean, there's The Left[Hakeem Jefferies/Gavin Newsom] and The Left[Bernie Sanders/JD Pritsker/Jeremy Corbyn] and then The Left[the DSA kids distributing food and fresh clothing to my nearby homeless encampment]. These are three very different flavors of Left.
A big part of the problem with liberal democratic politics is how deeply co-opted all these parties have become. At the end of the day, John Thune and Chuck Schumer, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer, Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre all bend the knee to Jamie Diamon and Jeff Bezos and Muhammad bin Salmon.
Wish it weren't so, but that's the world we live in.