As long as the wealthy can put the finger on the scale with control of media and funding propaganda, the pendulum won’t stop swinging.
One group does damage.
The next does some changes that will take about 4-20 years to fix that damage, and do not try to fix everything, letting some damage stay.
People are unhappy with the after-effects of the damage and switch again fooled by the propaganda, preventing further fixes from continuing.
The destructive group claims any improvements as their actions, and any problems as caused by the fixing group, and do some more things to make things even worse.
The damage eventually becomes patent again, so people switch once again.
And repeat.
Then Republicans get back into power and revert all the progress…
As long as the wealthy can put the finger on the scale with control of media and funding propaganda, the pendulum won’t stop swinging.
One group does damage.
The next does some changes that will take about 4-20 years to fix that damage, and do not try to fix everything, letting some damage stay.
People are unhappy with the after-effects of the damage and switch again fooled by the propaganda, preventing further fixes from continuing.
The destructive group claims any improvements as their actions, and any problems as caused by the fixing group, and do some more things to make things even worse.
The damage eventually becomes patent again, so people switch once again.
And repeat.
And things slowly ratchet to worse and worse.