content: Why the Republicans and Democrats are usually 50:50 in everything Doesn't it seem a little mathematically peculiar that the Republican's and Democrats almost always split things evenly.  Exactly 50% of the people in the country appeal to one ideology and the other 50% to another. Here is why.  It's the same reason that the Republicans now in complete power (a true outlier) instead of using it to do exactly what they said they would do are doing what the dems would do if in power (healthcare) while also invading our privacy. For those who say but things aren't exactly 50:50, you just gave an example.  In math the way you show a stability is by looking at what happens when there are outliers. The second they get a slight voting advantage they pillage.  What we need to do is win in the primary and not at the general.  We need to take note of who is going back on their word and absolutely assure they don't get back in office again.  Unfortunately incumbents advantage is even great in a primary, to the point that the majority is uncontested.  This is horrible because primaries are the only way to take back out country.  The powers that be know that they are guaranteed continued power if they control that machine.  We ought to war over the thing that matters.  Unfortunately that only comes every now and again. Until then there isn't much point in fighting.  We will wait for the day and we will spring like a bow and turn the world upside down.  Trump was only the start.  Just two more years and if we are not distracted the world will change.  Even if we can't get all of them in that time we can let them know we've changed the game.  If we are too weak to get this done we are too weak to get anything done.  This is the minimum of success.