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Because the democrats are the Republicans of 10 years ago that constantly triangulates on the mythical moderate voter in the ever right-shifting "center" between the most wretched reactionaries to be organized into a political party - themselves constantly regressing further to maintain a distinctive distance from their political opposition - and their status quo maintaining tail.

Because our political leaders and their consultants are bad at politics.

i like it, it's simple and effective

maybe you're victim of the paradox of the blue sky?

after checking, "paradox of the blue sky" doesn't seem to be an established term. here's a short explanation:

a nazi says on a sunny and cloudless day that the sky is blue. because a nazi is always wrong, you contradict it and say that the sky is in fact not blue; even though it clearly is blue. But if a nazi says it, it must clearly be wrong.