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    > essentially most Americans are single issue voters on the economy.
Isn't this true in all democracies? It is very hard to stay in power if the economy isn't doing well.
In Portugal the same two parties have been consistentently fucking up the economy for the past 30 years with no end in sight. It's comically bad.

They then announce pensions for majority groups like the elderly and get voted into power by the same groups they are financing.