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It may be this election or the next, but the pendulum always swings back. And it always will so long as neither party delivers what people want: or at least not what they really want.
Since WW2 the Republicans promise lower taxes and smaller government and we end up with the economy going downhill and more rules and regulations: people vote Democrat. After the Democrats have been in the White House a while, middle class and working people soon forget why they put them there and start listening to the lower taxes message again. The Republicans come back.
So the lines were blurred a little by people in the flyover states voting against their own best interests as a way of striking out at the city dwellers on the coast who, in their eyes, are undermining America's values. And they have paid dearly for that: almost all the legislation prompted by their grandfathers is gone and their towns are still dying, gays are as high-profile as ever, and the only places where abortion is banned are other countries which want US aid. But it doesn't take a major shift among the uncommitted to change the party of government and it will happen soon enough.
Until the next time...
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