Not only does the state increasingly criminalize being un-housed, they are increasingly using their power to harass people who have any empathy and try to make a positive impact on the world for no profit motive. There is big money in helping "the homeless" as long as you don't actually do anything. All facets of government in the U.S. has become a system of graft and corruption. Mr. Smith wouldn't even get the chance to go to Washington because the DNC is just as complicit as the GOP.
Which isn't even the case. One party is kicking puppies while standing in full support and solidarity of each other's big, heavy boots. The other party says we shouldn't kick puppies, but isn't able to muster enough collective support and organization to actually make it stop.
And this guy is saying the ones against puppy-kicking are just as complicit as the puppy kickers in kicking puppies simply because they have failed to stop the puppy kicking, with the implication that we shouldn't support either "side". The real result of following advice like this is that puppies never stop getting kicked.
The intent of bothsidesing is almost always to stealthily support disenfranchisement. It serves the objectives of the right.
Criticize the reps for what they do wrong. Vote in primaries. Write your elected officials. Demand better. Don't create these false equivalences that only make it easier for the GOP to continue a regressive, anti-civil rights campaign to make the world worse.