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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Because it's called "partisan politics"...and it's as rampant among the private sector as it is throughout the halls of Congress.
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All true, but we have also moved beyond partisan politics as usual lately, and into the realm of personality cults. Both Obama and Trump gained a lot of their support from voters who didn't know about or didn't care about the issues, and were not part of the traditional party base.
They based their support solely on a faith that their candidate would make things better, period. Obama was going to put an end to racism and Trump was going to put an end to globalism. They didn't question or care how.
I think that this also accounts for part of why Hillary lost the nomination in 2008, despite being the presumptive winner, and why she lost the general election that she was also "supposed" to win. She was facing a new political force she could not match. You can't have a personality cult if you don't have a personality.
