Orchid
Yes, but I think the US national media do this too, portraying politics as a team sport, with the presudential election the Super Bowl. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders is drawing record-breaking crowds in Republican states. I’m quite far left; my cousins are quite far right; we disagree on many issues. But there ARE issues we do agree on. For instance, they support Medicare for All, as do 60% of Republican voters but only a minority of Democratic politicians. They want to bring the troops home, a position supported by most Americans and nearly no American politician. Mostly, as is true of the bottom 80% of the country, they’d like jobs that paid enough that they didn’t have to work 60 hour weeks, in one job or two, year round. Politicians from both parties talk a good game there but do nothing.
At some point, some American politician is going to realize that if the US can print money to bail out banks and to go to war, it can print money to put people to work. Who knows what party that politician will be from? Whoever it is will be defying Wall Street’s advantage as money creators (via credit) and, if that person can withstand the ensuing firestorm of media personal attacks, will win it all, hands down.