Elections have consequences. The problem is that few people take time to really examine the political system to understand to understand the consequences of an election.
Politicians use a strange type of new speak that allows them to do the opposite of what they say. For example, people might support a candidate who uses social justice rhetoric believing that this will create a more just society. The top heavy policies of the social justice candidate might make a less just society.
Another strange effect is that the sentiment of a nation often moves in the opposite direction of the leader. For example, Trump's reelection strategy was to push the opposition to the left with the idea that he could capture the center and get a second term.
The effect of the strategy is that Trump pushed the nation to the left.
Clinton used the same strategy. He pushed the GOP to the right to capture the center and pushed the nation to the right.
Personally, I think the world is suffering from excessive political and economic centralization. I am using HIVE because I hope crypto and decentralized finance might provide a partial remedy to this problem.
The shrill elections that we have seen in the last several decades tend to feed the forces of centralization.
Focusing so much attention on the big central elections ends up feeding the process of centralization.