FlemishDuck
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Or mainly because of a steeply rising wealth devide. The wealthy class atleast has the interrest to sway politics their way and when the wealth gap is rising they find themself ever more influential, besides that many among the wealthy class also control a share of the media pie. Politics nowadays often boils down to sprouting a lot of puppulist nonsense in ellections and then many politicians mostly defend the interrests of the wealthy class that fund them anyway. Trump is a nice example too as he will mostly act to create an even harsher neoliberal policy on the relative poor underclass that voted in such volume for him. The left is no exception either, they too have rich backers that they need though mostly from industrial sectors that would actually profit from certain left wing policy like pharmaceuticals that suddently might see a lot of their products repayed to the customer trough social security stimulating more pill consumption.
While the people are practicly diametricly devided among left/right ideological leanings, most political party's and politicians just line the pockets of their wealthy supporters.
The issue of money in politics has been discussed in the USA before for obvious reasons but even with attempts in the past to limit donations new structure's are invented all the time to facilitate it. Politics (and i might surprise few with this) is rather corrupt and held hostage by a nepotist clique's backed by large sums if needed, the real enemy for them are potential new rising party's rather than the oposition they know. And given the trend it's likely going to get a lot worse still, perhaps one day people here will cherisch this time for the relative harmless candidates we have today even when still taking Brexit in mind.