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They are both problems, but if blatant corruption concerns you less than which way they naturally lean, you might be a partisan moron.
The republicans aren't calling for him to step down so this is partisan politics, not an actual call for ethics reform.
That is because one party at least tries to be ethical most of the time and the other doesn't even have the courtesy to pretend. Ethics shouldn't be a party issue but here we are.
Both parties have a multitude of sketchy relationships, and a shady past. Manchins a democrat and he's the biggest sellout for Big Oil
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/20/joe-manchin-big-oil-democratic-senator
And yet one side is clearly worse than the other
Nobody's falling for your crap here
All day long on this community.
Link the mass amount of people. Surely you can go find them.
Didn't say a mass amount. But there are people on this community who will defend Manchin as long as anyone keeps talking about what a piece of shit he is. You can test this for yourself. Just point out some policies Manchin has killed and express disappointment without making excuses for him. You'll be inundated with "HE'S THE BEST WV CAN DO" and "WHATABOUT ALL THE REPUBLICANS HE VOTED WITH?!?!" or some of the standard centrist gaslighting about not knowing how anything works, or some combination of the above.
Hell, link one. One link.
https://lemmy.world/post/5229048
Have an entire thread.
"Ah like muh poleeticks like ah like muh football. Muh teem no mattur wut!"
No, I expect the usual will happen, everyone will try to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist
Kind of like your attitude towards reality?
There are like a dozen stories on the front page right now about Democrats running against Menendez and/or calling for him to resign for corruption. Nobody's falling for this "both sides" crap anymore.
Manchin is the most Republican of the Democrats and he's the best you could come up with when looking for Democratic corruption?
Kinda proving your opponent's point here
A little secret: he ain't a Democrat. He just said so because the old folks in his State remember when their grandparents voted Democrat.