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On Lemmy, you will absolutely be seen as "the other side" by many extreme left folks when you broadcast this.
I'm also independent, though I lean a lot more left than right in the US system. This said, there a lot of far-left extremists here on Lemmy...
I'm over here gunning for something resembling democratic socialism, and 5/6 comments around me want to weaponize the prolitareat and burn society down so they can some-crazy-how rebuild the socialist utopia from Star Trek overnight.
"Both sides" are absolutely not the same... But they are both pretty delusional when you get into their most extreme examples. They both think they know exactly what's best for everyone (just like the original meme that started this thread clearly exhibits.)
I'm right there with you, honestly.
It's very possibel that there's just legitimate nuance to those policies and criticisms that you may have interpreted as prescriptive rather than descriptive.