Since 1993 there were 20 blue years and 12 red years.
Why wasn't it fixed?
Re:Doge.gov site has been hacked
by dragonwriter on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:12AM
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Those were mostly purple years; the United States isn't—at least, when functioning approximately according the the Constitutional rules, which has suddenly become an important qualifier—a unitary executive dictatorship.
Because presidents didn't used to act like kings. It's extremely common for the House and/or Senate to swing opposite the President:
https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/...
There's also the problem of Democrats being absolutely terrible at organizing and uniting.
There's two things you need to make people feel the government is working for them:
* good social policies
* adequate education
One of the US parties has been working for decades to sabotage both, and with the help of the media they've successfully managed to deflect all the blame for it. So no, I don't agree that DOGE is a symptom of a larger problem -- unless you mean that the problem is 50 years of consistently undermining the government.