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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
The problem for the GOP is that their voters have all but stopped caring about actual governance in favor of whatever culture war plen-t-plaint Fox News is grousing about any given week. You look at what gets the conservatives animated in this forum and it’s stuff like whining about “critical race theory,” using Tim Scott to troll the left, and letting cops strangle black people. No one gives a rip about lowering taxes or limited government or any of the normal governance stuff that the GOP could actually deliver to its voters.
But to be fair that is largely due to decades of decline in voter confidence in their elected officials, due to seeing them as completely vacuous and lying when it comes to what they often offer them in campaigns versus what they get (or don't get) after the party has won.
Once you give up on actually being able to get any real or substantive change as promised and all you are offered is a 'two sides of the same coin', 'lesser of two evils' choice that both represent the same corporate interests it is far easier then to only focus on the culture war stuff.
And both parties shoehorned voters into that position and choice very deliberately. Both were very happy in them having no real choice and thus neither party being forced to really cater to voters. And this now is the blow back to that.
Biden is trying to change that now by trying to say to Americans 'government can work for you' and we will see if it can work. If even GOP voters will notice some benefits and think 'I want to keep voting for that'.