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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't think people even think that hard about it or think in terms of who will provide solutions. People are negatively reacting to the long-term trajectory of the American economy where wealth is increasingly being concentrated at the top and real wages aren't really growing. And their reaction to that is to just keep trying something different and see saw back and forth, more or less blindly. Unless I'm mistaken, this is the first time since the late 1800s that the Presidency has changed parties 3 elections in a row, and the House is changing hands more often than it has historically.
The Democrats have obviously failed to properly understand the American electorate and what drives them. But I would also be pretty hesitant to ascribe the results to some sort of endorsement of Republicans. Americans are pretty fickle these days, and I suspect we'll see something similar to Biden's term where Trump starts off somewhat popular but then his act wears thin and people want change again.
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That's one way to look at it. Another is that especially after Citizens United, the ultra-rich have a strangehold on US politics, and they don't like genuinely united political movements focused on real causes.