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You have some people who believe that differences are real and you have others who believe that the differences are mostly illusory and that the parties are mostly the same
they differ in certain ways and align in others
the dispute is whether the ways in which they differ are meaningful or significant, and then whether short term implications are more or less significant than long term ones
they can differ, significantly, in certain ways (access to healthcare, eg) while aligning in other ways (protection of healthcare financers) at the same time
ideologically motivated selective attention operates itt to cloud the significance of their differentiation and, apparently, falsely to suggest that their similarities are ignored or unrealized