You have too much faith in how smart Americans are. Most just want the optics of dems being in power even if they’re nothing but republicans running as dems because they don’t like Trump but like every other part of the GOP platform
As someone who’s lived in multiple midwest/flyover states, not really. The median American is a leftist. They want healthcare for all (genuinely ask any Oklahoman how jealous they are of Native Americans in the state). They want strong labor protections. They want cheaper rent and most want public housing back. Most all of them recognize that the wealthy (though many do limit it to ‘some’ of the wealthy) are responsible for how poorly their life has gone, and the main struggles they’ve found in life. They want to help their neighbors and in many small towns you’ll find just straight up a Sharing Economy, which is a genuine possible path for post-socialist economics at the local level; and they recognize that the state should only exist for conflict disputes. Hell, until 2001 you could not find a single ‘rural’ or what would now be ‘MAGA’ voter that supported the existence of police or their ability to just stop people. Until 2009 it was hard to find any that actually supported immigration restrictions or ‘anti-dei’ or ‘integration.’ Like genuinely they were incredibly rare.
So there is hope. But because democrats chose neoliberalism and chose to make the singular difference between the parties ‘who can tie populist ideas to their platform first,’ many Americans went full conservative/MAGA, despite not knowing what those positions actually entail, and most Americans just because disillusioned with american democracy and chose to exclude themselves since both parties were genuinely the same exact platform in 1992-2000.
You have too much faith in how smart Americans are. Most just want the optics of dems being in power even if they’re nothing but republicans running as dems because they don’t like Trump but like every other part of the GOP platform
As someone who’s lived in multiple midwest/flyover states, not really. The median American is a leftist. They want healthcare for all (genuinely ask any Oklahoman how jealous they are of Native Americans in the state). They want strong labor protections. They want cheaper rent and most want public housing back. Most all of them recognize that the wealthy (though many do limit it to ‘some’ of the wealthy) are responsible for how poorly their life has gone, and the main struggles they’ve found in life. They want to help their neighbors and in many small towns you’ll find just straight up a Sharing Economy, which is a genuine possible path for post-socialist economics at the local level; and they recognize that the state should only exist for conflict disputes. Hell, until 2001 you could not find a single ‘rural’ or what would now be ‘MAGA’ voter that supported the existence of police or their ability to just stop people. Until 2009 it was hard to find any that actually supported immigration restrictions or ‘anti-dei’ or ‘integration.’ Like genuinely they were incredibly rare.
So there is hope. But because democrats chose neoliberalism and chose to make the singular difference between the parties ‘who can tie populist ideas to their platform first,’ many Americans went full conservative/MAGA, despite not knowing what those positions actually entail, and most Americans just because disillusioned with american democracy and chose to exclude themselves since both parties were genuinely the same exact platform in 1992-2000.