Recent demographic changes in partisan ID in the US, and meandering Sunday morning thoughts

[kanzeon_2040]

Starting in 2009, there was an abrupt shift in the party ID of white people who didn’t graduate from college - which is most white people. Suddenly non-college whites broke decisively for Republicans. It seems, at first, the only factor that makes sense in explaining this shift, is that the US had finally elected a black President. For whatever

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[matrixmann]

Ironically, it's all the important Western democracies suffering from the same problems.
Even if trying to keep up to pretend that there's a democratic system active, they all lack new faces for representing this forcefully, also they always tend to come up with those faces they came with for the election for the last 30 to 40 years. And those faces - the turning to the differing far right movements in the population are also partly a result from it -, the voting and non-voting people strongly give the sign about that they don't want them anymore 'cause all the do is making the situation for normal citizens worse and worse while rich people become able to do whatever they want and never get punished

Part II

[matrixmann]

All in all, you see it on that cabinet now, it's a thing designed to buy time for the next election. The pressure from the far right, represented by the AfD here, coerced them to change something, but they did it only on the surface because previous policy ought not to get into danger of not getting fulfilled. But even that superficial change looks like an action from desperation. They just took some people of their previous positions, palced them in some ministeries in Berlin, and then that's it