Okay. It seems to me that there could be some... hard-hitting education on this subject, that reaches past the high-minded thoughtcloud and gets down to brass tacks. I will elucidate this once, because it's extremely arduous to explain in its fullness.
Republicans win because Democrats cannot ever hold onto power. Democratic voters are much more critical of their leaders and come from a variety of cultures and experiences, so Democratic politicians have to walk a tightrope to satisfy them. I know that might not seem to be the case when you interact with the True Believers, but facts is facts. They're easier to disenfranchise.
To add to this, Republicans can at all times threaten their uneasy political power with politics that hearken to nostalgia and a miasmic sense of what 'used to be good' about America. They literally sit on a platform of "Change is bad," while in reality using that nostalgic sense of hardworking-American-ism to instate laissez-faire policies that roundly help only very large corporations. It's the perfect political marriage of absolute cronyism meets meaningless lip service. Having this pair of voting blocs is incredibly powerful for them, and means they basically never have to put Country first. Get investigated for corruption? Oh, that's okay, the good Senator believes in Jesus, he too will be saved.
Democrats, on the other hand, find that they indeed must make those same kinds of shady deals, but instead with law firms, labor unions, various apparatus of the state, and many, many other scattered groups all at once, in order to ever get or stay in power, because their groups are smaller, varied and require much more motivation to turn out to vote. And naturally because their followers are not faith-based, when they get investigated for corruption, or found to lie, they get hit twice as hard- by Republicans on the other side, and by their disillusioned followers who want them to be above the system that they must participate in to get to play at all. To add to this, they must also not anger the Conservative base too much lest they activate that incredibly easily manipulated bloc that will leap into action. This is to say nothing of racial components, which are there but I'll just leave out because it's more trouble than it's worth for the sake of this very mechanical explanation. Suffice it to say, they've got an easy button and we don't. That's why corruption exists- because the standard bloc Democrats depend on is so shaky that they end up having to go elsewhere to shore themselves up. This is how we got here.
Now. Could this be changed? Yes. But it would require everyone to participate in politics way, way, WAY more than they do. Voting once every four years, for President, is like fishing in half a boat. You have to vote for your local races. Senator. Governer. Mayor. City Council. You have to make some calls. You have to knock on doors. You have to engage with people outside of your bubble, and you have to vigilantly remember that politicians are not your parents, or your friends. They're tools that have availed themselves to you, to get the things you want. Treat them that way.
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