Looking for intelligent political discussion on an internet forum is like diving down a toilet bowl and expecting to come up with a Mars bar, but this is my $0.02 on this election here in the USA:
The education and healthcare system in the United States have become incredibly expensive, unfair, and broken to the point where they have become a massive financial liability for the majority of the population. You can combine this with skyrocketing housing prices in most major metropolitan areas (the places with the most jobs) and constant exposure to increasingly personalized echo chambers created on the majority of social media platforms out there today (to promote user engagement and ad revenue).
What you end up with is an extremely polarized population that is generally pissed off with the world (hard to be satisfyingly angry with massive faceless corporate entities), feels as though they have been generally wronged, and sees very little hope in their future prospects matching what previous generations had taught them to expect w.r.t. financial stability.
At this point, the most stereotypical examples of the liberal/conservative parties look like:
Conservative - "Other groups of people have gotten better treatment than me by exploiting the system or having things handed to them! I have suffered, so they should suffer, too! We need someone who will hurt them so that we can level the playing field!"
Liberal - "Some groups of people have gotten better treatment than others because the majority mindset is bias against them! We should blame the majority for oppressing the others and punish ourselves so we know what it is like to suffer, levelling the playing field!"
And because most people are pissed off and scared, this is how it goes.
Everyone seems to be missing the point that our goal should be that no one should suffer. Have you experienced shittyness in your life? Feel wronged? Like the world is leaving you behind? Like you are powerless and have no say? Fix it! But not by dragging others down - but by lifting us all up. That's how you actually become the greatest country in the world.