How do Americans really view their major political parties?

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[OneViewpoint]

I can't speak for all Americans but this American views both political parties as corrupt.

Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have passed any legislation to benefit the people in 45 years. Dark money from special interest groups an billionaires funneled to politicians through lobbyists and Political Action Committees (PAC's) have bribed every scumbag in the House and Senate.

These are no longer the Representatives of the people. These are no longer the Senators put there to ensure rational decision making. These people are the bought and paid for employees of the 1% Billionaires and Bankers. They protect the people who pay them, not the taxpayers who offer a paltry salary.

This is the reason why wealth inequality is enshrined in our tax laws. It's the reason we spend $1 trillion per year on defense corporations. It's the reason we have the worst healthcare system in the developed world. It's the reason our middle class is rapidly shrinking away to nothing. It's the reason we give tax cuts to billionaires and take money away from education and food for the poor.

[goaded]

Quickest MHO ever.

From the outside, your choices (baked into your two-party system), are 99% corrupt vs. 80% corrupt.

Have you heard of the theory of Democratic "rotating villains"? (I think that's what it's called.)

There's always just enough Democratic lawmakers who surprisingly choose to vote against their supposed party line to lose on votes that would affect rich people. It's not always the same people (with the exceptions of people like Liebermann, Sinema, and the coal guy), but they always seem to lose, gosh darn it, to those terrible Republicans!

The most recent example being the four that took an average of about $2m each in "donations" from AIPAC and voted against restricting Trump's Epstein Fury.

[msc545]

So who exactly put this together, and where did they get their samples of people with opinions and views that resulted in this chart?

[goaded]

Sorry: https://www.strengthnnumbers.org/ I'll find the link in a bit, I hope!

[goaded]

www.gelliottmorris.com/.../new-poll-democrats-real-problem-isnt

"In our February poll, we asked voters whether each of 10 adjectives describes the Democratic and Republican parties. Each person was asked to rank how well each word — such as “extreme”, “elitist”, “tough”, and “weak” — described both parties on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 indicating the word described the party very well.

The Republican Party’s defining traits in voters’ minds are extreme (60% agree), elitist (57%), tough, (56%) and cruel (51%). The percentage of Americans agreeing with descriptions of positive traits is comparatively smaller: just 41% say the party is competent, 41% say principled, and only 31% — less than a third — say the GOP can be considered empathetic."

[exitseven]

the glaring error is thinkin g democrats are competent. They are the root of all our problems from crime, to energy production.

[goaded]

How come it is always a Republican President when there is a Depression or Recession? ↗

[exitseven]

it isn't. we had a recession when Biden was president. The democrats changed the definition of recession so they could say it wasn't. Didn't we have one with Obama too? We did not have one in Trump's first term and have not had one yet. Admittedly, Trump is not your old style Republican.

[goaded]

Being elected during a recession is not the same as being responsible for it. Democrats are stuck with fixing the economy.

The Bush recession started in 2007, the Trump recession was in 2020.
en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_recession

[exitseven]

Trump was elected when the economy was a mess. We are still feeling the fallout from 4 years of gross incompetence and corruption and yet Trump is being blamed for it.

[goaded]

Oh good grief. You're completely living in Bizzaro World.

Take a look at this graph (GDP). What do you see?
fred.stlouisfed.org/.../fredgraph.png

How about this one (Hires, non-farm).
fred.stlouisfed.org/.../fredgraph.png

Or this (unemployment).
fred.stlouisfed.org/.../fredgraph.png

[exitseven]

look at the last year, GDP was over 4% in the last quarter Inflation is down to 2.4%. The jobs have ben stubborn but some are because 260,000 government jobs have been eliminated. We had the democrat shutdowns and AI has caused massive layoffs in many sectors.

[goaded]

"GDP was over 4%"? Did you mean up 4%? So, about the same as almost every year since Obama came into office. I mean, if your claim "Trump was elected when the economy was a mess" was true, and Trump made a difference, you'd see some kind of significant change around 2017/18 or 2025/26. You don't.

What do you think the inflation rate was in Jan 2025?

[KimmySchmit]

From what I've seen they dont trust either one.

[Shiprex]

I don't know because they seem more intent on being part of a team than actually dealing with the issues

[Still-alive]

Thats pretty much how i see it.

[4ngelic]

both are incompetent, corrupted and suck

[LC75LC71]

Haha, you already know..