They're just a symptom of the problem, quality of life for the common Man has been precipitously dropping for a long time, and they're they're doing whatever they can think of to try to fight back.
Now I can already hear you saying "that's crazy these people won't help them!" And your very likely right, but they've tried the other alternative. Obama got in, he basically destroyed the Republican party by winning so hard, he even had a supermajority in the Senate, and instead of people's lives getting better, they got someone telling them that their lives were getting better while they actually got markedly worse.
That's where you end up with some really weird stuff, like in 2016 a lot of the people who voted Trump would have in the alternative voted for Bernie Sanders. The key with both of them not being a common ideology obviously, but the fact that there were both perceived as considerably different than the political orthodoxy that had failed them.
The cure for politicians like that is really simple but not easy to implement: the working and middle classes need to feel like they've got a pathway to a normal life. As things stand, entire generations aren't having kids because they're struggling so much just to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Without addressing this root cause, politics is going to get much uglier than you can possibly imagine, you'll look back on these halcyon days with fondness. And that's not just for america, that's for Europe as well where the youth are in bad shape in a lot of countries.
Now I can already hear you saying "that's crazy these people won't help them!" And your very likely right, but they've tried the other alternative. Obama got in, he basically destroyed the Republican party by winning so hard, he even had a supermajority in the Senate, and instead of people's lives getting better, they got someone telling them that their lives were getting better while they actually got markedly worse.
That's where you end up with some really weird stuff, like in 2016 a lot of the people who voted Trump would have in the alternative voted for Bernie Sanders. The key with both of them not being a common ideology obviously, but the fact that there were both perceived as considerably different than the political orthodoxy that had failed them.
The cure for politicians like that is really simple but not easy to implement: the working and middle classes need to feel like they've got a pathway to a normal life. As things stand, entire generations aren't having kids because they're struggling so much just to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Without addressing this root cause, politics is going to get much uglier than you can possibly imagine, you'll look back on these halcyon days with fondness. And that's not just for america, that's for Europe as well where the youth are in bad shape in a lot of countries.
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