SirEdward
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It depends on what the alternatives are and on what the candidate brings with him, not just what he is.Why did so many people vote for the racist orange man? I give up.
The problem with bipolarism is that as long as you are not very fed up or do not find a significantly bigger part of what you think should be done on the other part, you won't switch.
Will you vote for Trump? I think not. So much so that you accept to vote for your own party even though it might include things in the program or people in the party that you dislike veeeery much. You'd still vote for it, particularly if the alternative was, ...Trump.
Well, this things, in time, lead to lower your standards, to accept each time something less similar to you because... well, because the alternative is what it is, so there's no question, is there? The more polarized the two parties are, the more this effect will trigger, the more people will end up voting what is actually very different from them, but still less different than the other party.
But until when? In my own experience, it can go on even until you do feel like you disagree with you own party most of the times (except on some key topics). Still "the others" are worse, to you, precisely in those key aspects, so you still won't switch. And there's no one who can make you change your mind (because they don't talk to you about the right topics). After which, your will to change party will lower even more if the main idea from "the others" is that you are a full-blown idiot or some other diminishing name.
Besides, if there is someone who will still votes for Trump, and you honestly can't see any reasons why, well, maybe the point is exactly that you have not understood how they think. And yes, some of them are just plain idiots, but if half the population of your country is composed of ACTUAL idiots, then you have bigger prolbems than an election.
The most probable answer, then, is that something still escapes you about WHY they do what they do.
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It was quite clear that this election was not going to be a landslide for Biden. Why? Because despite what many would like to think, the distance in moral fiber and in mental ability and in smart proposals or in simply right and fair proposals, and in "friends and allies" is smaller than what would be needed to have THAT MANY people to jump side (do not forget the confirmation bias - theirs, and yours).
EDITED FOR shamingly bad grammar (this won't be perfect, but at least is presentable).
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