At this point it might just be.
okmko
joined 2 years ago
Wut. Ofc they know it. They also know that their voters would never vote D either, no matter how bad things get for them.
The R senator of Kentucky has held a <20% approval rating but also his seat for decades. 9 out of 10 people in the state hate him with a passion and yet those same people vote for him again, and again, and again. It's absurd, lool.
It's known that the more wealth you acquire, the stronger your foot fetish becomes.
It's known.
This is what I'm afraid of too. And it's entirely within the realm of possibility, and likely too because he's seemingly incapable of accepting public loses. He's going to do something, anything in response.
It's as if the person read a parable about the Hindenburg disaster and took from it the idea that hydrogen should be the only gas used for balloons.
The YouTube creator CGPGrey has a video that's an easy to digest summary of power structures and the incentives throughout. It's the answer to your question.
https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs