The republicrats and the demopublicans are equally bad and equally fake.
The people you see on TV are actors. They are not the ones making the important decisions.
They are the ones who sell you decisions that have already been made.
And because this is a midterm year in the US, you often hear: "Trump has to juice markets to win the midterm elections."
And because politics is fake, this of course is completely incorrect.
In fact, Trump wants to lose House seats.
In midterm years, historically, the president's party usually loses House seats and often loses control of at least one chamber.
And this is useful to the system (the bosses of these actors) for multiple reasons, but I'll give you the main one.
It is a blame machine & excuse generator.
If the president's party keeps a big majority:
- They "own" everything.
- They have no one to blame when they don't deliver what the base wants (and what they've promised).
- The gap between promises vs outcomes becomes too obvious. Even the biggest dummies eventually figure out that the game is rigged.
When they lose seats and often lose one chamber:
They can say:
- "We wanted to do X, but the other side blocked us."
- "We're constrained by a divided Congress."
The opposition gets partial ownership of austerity, rate hikes, and "discipline".
So the regime gets:
- A durable excuse for why deep structural things never change.
- A way to redirect anger horizontally (left vs right) instead of vertically (people vs system).
Midterm losses create narrative cover.
It's all fake.
