I don't know if this successfully "balanced" the scales. It felt "true" to real life, in that the "Democrats" love to concede their points, but in terms of a balanced argument, Billy kept conceding over and over and over again.

Does that make it a author voicebox? Or just a tough execution to toe the lie on? Hard to say which kinda puts it in that level of potential satire, I guess.

It felt terminally online, in how long these conversations went on and the talking points of them, which I guess is true to the nature of the sort of people who needs to have these arguments in the flesh. While the "conservative" arguments felt true to what's most publicly visible, I don't know if the "progressive" arguments matched (but that might be cause the work was unwilling to concede any grounds to the "prog" pov).

It felt more like Billy's views were superficial and/or he had Daddy issues back to his own conservative father, and while I think that would have been interesting if it was actually explored more in depth (while not also simultaneously becoming one of those "turn conservative propaganda" works) I don't know if that was an intentional reading of the work.

I think the art was nice and captured the vibes of what it wanted to do. I think this was just a very ambitious concept, and you bit off more than you could chew. That, and these bitches needed to acknowledge they loved bickering more than the contents of the words themselves. Talking just to hear their own voices... 

I applaud the ambition, but I think this was a tough piece to execute.