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If we're doing condescending book recommendations, here's one that's actually relevant to the topic:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666062-listen-liberal
If being perceived as intelligent is so important to you, how about you take a step back and perceive the conversation you're inserting yourself into? The argument you're addressing is that democrats are too similar to republicans. You're replying to someone arguing that democrats are complicit in your list of 'republicans bad' with the idiosyncrasies of republican ideological superstructure. It's a complete red herring. If you're going to respond, respond on topic. And if you're going to act stupid don't be condescending.
I wasn't being condescending, just recommending a book about the history behind the modern Republican party. Tracing the history behind how a modern Christian right movement was created should be more than enough evidence about why the two parties being equivalent is false.
That's the entire point of recommending the book, and the term "prefigurative traditionalism" is taken directly from the book I recommended, not my attempt to "sound smart."