I think this says it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457548 I'll also add that if you look back to

I think this says it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457548 I'll also add that if you look back to 70's the Democratic Presidents have been more fiscally conservative than the Republican ones. That just supports the comment I link to above, which I think is 100% correct. Republicans of the last 30 years care about one thing: reduce taxes on the wealthy. The second thing they care about: reducing regulations on businesses. They want to be able to pollute and discriminate as much as they want, to increase shareholder value. The fact that people vote against their own best interest has flabbergasted me for the last 20+ years.