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> But even if I use your terminology, the "left wing tyrants" and "right wing tyrants", if one or the other were given complete control of the country... well, the country would look very different after some time, depending on which side were given control.

Well this is actually demonstrably false. Biden currently has the house and the senate, Trump has the house, the senate and the Supreme Court, Obama had the house and the senate… The rhetoric between these two sides is substantially different, but the governments they produce are very similar. They implement some token fraction of the policy platform they were elected on, and otherwise just plow through the same old policy agenda every time. Who’s opposing this Tory Online Safety bill in the UK? Technically Labour is, but only because they think it doesn’t go far enough…




In US, "having" the Senate has been mostly meaningless since filibuster became a standard feature of every vote. And without a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate you really can't do all that much regardless of the platform. Not only that, but the issues that are most prominent in the rhetoric tend to be the more polarizing ones (which should come as no surprise, since that's exactly the kind of stuff that rallies "your" voters to the polls), and thus are the least probable to actually push through by getting votes from a few defectors on the other side.


Biden currently has the house and the senate

No he doesn't, the Republicans hold the House. And while a bare majority is sufficient to pass legislation in the House, the Senate has this quasi-official filibuster nonsense which means it's hard to get a lot of things done without a supermajority. Additionally, any legislative change is typically immediately dragged into court which can slow down implementation for several years.


All the examples you listed are right-wing.




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