The state of politics in the United States

What's the best way to get support from voters?  Address their fears and concerns and offer solutions.

The biggest fear among Americans today is probably money.  A ridiculous percentage live below the poverty line, most have substantial debt, and some have no hope of ever paying back their debt.  The American people are struggling, as a society, to make ends meet.

And it doesn't make sense.  We're working longer hours than we used to but we're not getting paid more.  Many haven't seen a raise in years.  So we're all--at some level--asking ourselves the same question:

Where did all the money go?

Ask a conservative politician in America that question.  You'll get one of a few responses.

"The liberals took it to spend on their Commie social programs," might come up, but come on.  The tax rate hasn't changed all that much for most Americans over the past decade, and most of us still have less and less money.  And need I remind you that the people asking the question loudest are the ones who rely on those social programs the most?

You might also get the noncommittal non-answer, "Gee, yeah, I mean, it's really tough for everyone right now, just gotta pull ourselves up by our bootstraps."  Yep!  Just keep doing what you're doing, it's bound to pan out eventually!

Increasingly commonly, though, we're hearing the scary reply:  "It's the fucking Chinese and the Mexicans!  Go get 'em!  And fuck the Muslims too, while we're on the topic!"  Well, there's the fear, but of course there's no real solution offered because they didn't actually address the cause of the problem.  They may as well just be dangling some shiny object in front of you, hoping you forget what the question was.

Now go ask a more liberal politician.  Many will pass off the non-answer on you too.  But the rest are gonna give you pretty much the same response across the board:

"THOSE guys!  The ones you were just talking to!  They and their backers have, like, ALL the money!  Why do you think they didn't give you a real answer?!"

And that's the only response that makes any sense.  Why do you not make more money?  Because you're working for those guys.  Why haven't you seen a pay raise in years?  Because those guys don't want to give it to you.  Guess who lent you all of the money you owe, and on which you're constantly paying interest?  Yep.  And they get to make the laws that say how they're allowed to treat you.  They make the laws that determine how much of the money they get to hold onto.  That's why they get to hold onto basically all of it.

Think about another issue:  healthcare.  Nearly every first-world nation provides healthcare to its citizens--all of its citizens--as a basic right.  Why don't we?  Because guess who owns the insurance companies, the drug companies, all the other ways in which people make a profit off of other people's desire to not die of easily treatable ailments?

Yep.  Those guys.  They're extremely wealthy, which means they can throw a lot of money around to ensure that they get to keep on raking in the dough.  It all comes back to them in the end.  And hey, I'm not against capitalism.  But even in Monopoly you don't get to buy the ability to make the rules.  You don't land on the "Income Tax" space and say, "How much does this property cost?"