| Bunch of people explaining this based on voting representation structures but I think they're missing the forest for the trees. It comes down to power and money. In any capitalist economy with large highly profitable corporate entities, the part(ies) that represent their interests most strongly are simply going to have more leverage and power. Biden and Harris made the "mistake" of starting to go after Silly Valley for tax evasion and for social/communal issues and so on. They made the "mistake" of trying to actually advance, modestly, some climate change policy that hurt the oil industry. They made the "mistake" of harming the same global energy industry by heavily sanctioning energy superpower Russia and trying to defeat it in a proxy war. They made the "mistake" of trying to regulate the cancer that is the cryptocurrency "industry." And they were completely buried for it. "Allies" in the tech industry just completely abandoned them, and put Vance up as their sock puppet. Musk went scorched earth. It doesn't matter that centrist opinions might accord with the majority of US society. At least to some degree. It doesn't match with those who hold real effective power -- monetary, capital power -- need. Capitalism and democracy only sometimes overlap. They only do so when people keep corporate interests in check through mass action and opposition and unionization and having an active social democratic party, etc. Something the US entirely lacks. |