[candiodari]

You should think that the two are related.

If, for instance, most people here are interested not in helping the poor but in changing the balance of power ... that would result in exactly the behavior you're describing.

It has been a feature of the last 15 years or so that so-called "leftists" are electing laissez-faire leaders and

1) see no problem there

2) attack people who criticize this (usually, of course, because they are leftists)

I commend you calling out that neither the democrat party, nor any Clinton, can be called leftist by any reasonable measure. In fact, at least on rhetoric, I would argue that Trump was actually to the left of Clinton.