> Americans always vote for lobbied parties. They are clearly happy with this compared to whatever other reasons they have to vote.

That's kinda backwards. (Yes, I know you said "compared to".) Rather, citizen are seldom "happy" about their selection of choices, and many are so very not-happy that they don't even vote.

The main fault is in the math and mechanics of our voting system, rather than the personal-traits of the people. The spoiler effect [0] is unusually strong with plurality-voting, an archaic scheme that still dominates US politics.

It's main "feature" is how it was easy to implement 250 years ago when more people were illiterate, calculating and printing was harder, and nothing traveled faster overland than a galloping horse. Nowadays there are many alternatives [1] and most would be an unequivocal upgrade.

> "I'll tolerate a bit of corruption because at least he's promising XYZ".

Hey now, don't tar the whole electorate with a worldview that is concentrated into a much smaller bloc. There's a reason that the most blatantly corrupt President in history never got anywhere when he spent years trying to run as a Democrat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect

[1] https://fairvote.org/resources/electoral-systems/comparing-v...