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The really screwed up thing isn't the BS that both parties' believers repeat like trained parrots, because in the end they don't count anyway. It's that elections are really won and lost according to where on the pendulum the 10% or so are who, ever since World War 2, switch their votes every few years.
They are mostly middle and working class people. When they have been kicked around enough by the Republicans, they vote Democrat. When they get tired of paying Democrats' taxes, they vote Republican. In the end, all the millions of dollars spent on getting elected, all the backroom deals, and all the self-serving crap we have to listen to from both sides... none of that achieves a damn thing, except maybe, just maybe, to slightly slow down or speed up that pendulum's movement.
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