How U.S. Politics Has Shifted

I distinctly recall the U.S. politics of the 1980s and 90s, and how close the two main parties were ideologically.  In particular, they were both engaged in corruption, feeding off large donors in exchange for favors, and virtually united in their neoliberalism, i.e., favoring the reduction of government influence in the economy through privatization and austerity.

I wasn’t one of them, but there were people who didn’t vote because the two parties were almost completely indistinguishable from one another.

As shown in the meme here, that’s no longer the case.  Corruption hasn’t gotten any better, but….

One can argue that the Democrats should be doing more to protect the environment and to improve the well-being of the common American.

But the Republicans have simply lost their minds.

People say the GOP is going to win big in the midterms, but exactly how is that to work out?

Yes, I understand that voters are frustrated by inflation and that most of them are too ignorant to know that this is global, not just a national phenomenon.  But how many parents seriously believe their kids’ teachers are promoting homo/transsexuality,  socialism, hatred of white people, and resentment of the police?