1. Firing on citizens is a very bad thing. It’s not end of America bad. That’s emotional and hyperbolic. Stopping the peaceful transfer of power actually literally ends American democracy. Time and time again, people have laid down their life, and killed others to protect Democracy which doesn’t fucking exist if there is no peaceful transfer of power. No one is arguing we are in a good place as a country.
2. Your second #bothsides assertion is incredibly uninformed, illustrating the current trend that emotions matter more than facts. ‘Our country has many problems, they haven’t been solved, and because both Democrats and Republicans exist in Congress, they are both at fault’. That conclusion is not just sophomoric, it’s childish. The Democrats are not perfect, in fact, there are a multitude of issues you could bring up, but to equivocate them with Republicans is like saying an an honor student is just as culpable for the bad class average as the student smearing shit on the walls.
One last rebuttal. The Democrats aren’t great country builders? Which party passed Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare to ensure millions of American have healthcare? Which party passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act to ensure everyone has equal rights? Which party passed the Federal Reserve Act and the Glass-Steagle Act to ensure our economy doesn’t collapse? Now, which party is trying to destroy everything I just listed? There’s a reason our country is fucked. It’s because 30% is trying to tear it down from within. And since they don’t have the numbers to do it legally, they are gerrymandering, making it harder to vote, relying on electoral college, enacting bullshit cloture rule, etc