Whom will Americans support?

As the USA electoral midterms approach it's time to compare the records of the current POTUS and ex-POTUS. Who accomplished more during their first two years in office: the beloved chieftain of the violent and ignorant or the doddering old man of lesser stature?

TRUMP:
Virtually non-existent

BIDEN:
Major NATO expansion
Boosted high tech mfg.
Tighter gun legislation
More veterans benefits
Inflation reduction act

Biden has seriously outperformed Trump and will soon have more credits to his name: drug price controls and a climate control plan. He deserves popularity, and not Trump!

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TinyViolins · 31-35, M

It's likely going to swing Republican, even in spite of a few necessary successes, in large part because the two-party system is f*cked.

It's always the same story. Democrats make promises, Republicans obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, Democrats fail to accomplish what they said, Republicans point and say 'look how bad Democrats are', and people eat that up because social media is mostly designed to share negative headlines and narratives.

Even with Roe v. Wade being overturned and people hating the decision, it's probably not going to be enough to pump life into the lack of enthusiasm felt towards the Dems. As much as I hate to say it, Democrats are going to get crushed in the midterms and Republicans are going to sit around doing nothing except taking money from corporate donors and rigging future elections in their favor

We desperately need a third party to bring some reason to the table

MissPerfect · 22-25, F

@TinyViolins China and Russia are to blame for the hardships Americans have faced over recent years. How would a third party reduce their negative influence?

SW-User

@TinyViolins a third party won't accomplish anything (and there are third parties already)

We need constitutional reform ... but red states have to ratify those amendments, which benefit the country, but do not benefit the right wing

That's why it is an ongoing poison pill problem courtesy of the architects of this country

The senate in particular will always give the right wing the advantage (whatever party name they go by), because that's the way it was designed

No third party is going to make giving up that artificial advantage enticing to red states

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@MissPerfect Democrats and Republicans care more about perception than results. Congress is rife with political theatre, extreme lobbying, dark money donations, and performative outrage. Because most congressional seats have been made safe from decades of gerrymandering, there is more incentive for the parties to work against each other than with each other. It will be seen as weak for a Democrat to concede anything to a Republican and especially vise versa.

Dems and Reps essentially vote along strict party lines because most members of Congress lose nothing by doing nothing. That's why so many of them can stay in power for decades even without delivering anything to the American people.

A third party mixes things up by forcing them to reconsider their alliances, to make them both lose majority status and make them dependent on cooperating in order to save their seats. But until the primary system is fixed at the state level, red counties will shift further red and blue counties further blue and more Americans grow disillusioned at the lack of any meaningful progress.

China and Russia definitely aren't doing us any favors, but the majority of the blame falls on us for letting institutional rot and ineffective legislators hold influence for far too long.