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As a non-American I sum it up as this: For the last 50 years (that I am old enough to know about) Democrats don't have the answer so they are bad. Republicans don't have the answer but will lie to us every minute of the day to keep us happy so they are good. Then Americans wonder why their country is about to implode.
If this was the case, Republicans would always win and Democrats would always lose.
That's not the case, though. Recently people just vote for the party that is out of power, because no matter who gets elected everything gets worse. Republicans get elected, everything gets worse, so people vote for Democrats next time. Then the Democrats get elected, everything gets worse, and so people vote for Republicans next time. Over and over until we're all dead.
Except everything did not get worse under Biden.
Yeah, everything didn't get worse, just the basics like housing, healthcare, the economy, the environment, the military, policing...
Not a fan of Biden, but his admin was like the definition of "status quo".
Which sucks, but that's a different conversation. It's unequivocally superior to whatever the fuck is going on right now.
I'd say the "status quo" is getting worse. The system itself makes things worse without intervention. And for a Biden specific failure, the non-prosecution of Republican crimes against democracy haven't just allowed the criminals to freely continue, but normalized those crimes and enabled the criminals to become even worse.
"I'm stupid so I am gonna vote for the abusive asshole"