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The country’s two major political parties are, in no statistical way, the same. The Democratic Party looks like America, diverse to such an extent that it nearly represents each demographic in actual population percentage. Among Republicans in office, the vast majority are white and male, though white people make up only about 60% of the nation’s population and women are over half of our population.
Since 1960, Democratic presidential administrations have had three indictments and one conviction for malfeasance. During that same time there have been over 300 indictments, over 90 convictions, and more than 30 prison sentences in Republican presidential administrations.
The Republican base doesn’t care. It’s largely rural, overwhelmingly white and doesn’t hold the party accountable for crimes its members commit. Look what happened to vocal GOP members of Congress who testified or spoke out against Donald Trump and the attempted overthrow of our government: Their constituents voted them out of office. According to Trump adviser Peter Navarro, there were 120 GOP members of Congress ready to support the fake elector scheme. Those people are still in office.
For the foreseeable future, presidents will be elected from one of our two major parties. So why are there independents? What are they looking at?
American social society has been set back 50 years by a Supreme Court selected by Republicans, and many of the people who voted Republicans into office did so because they had no idea that the two parties are demonstrably different.
