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However, the reality is that most of the voting proletariat actually lean more “socially conservative, fiscally liberal.”

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Maybe, but it seems to me the problem is that all politicians have to have big money donors, and consequently they have to do what they can to get a return on investment for their donors. There are no fiscally conservative politicians any more. (If there ever were?) Sure they pretend to be fiscally conservative, make speeches about how the budget is out of hand, etc. But regardless of who is in power the debt goes up. And at this point I don’t think you can say the difference is Republicans cut taxes, and Democrats tend to spend. Instead it’s whoever is in power tries to spend as much as they can, and whoever isn’t in power flails around crying about irresponsible behavior by the other party. It’s all pretty ludicrous but it is what it is.