"Frequently" is a bit subjective. This is one of those things where it might only happen in a specific area once every couple of years (for more than a few minutes or hours), but when it happens, it sticks around in people's memory -- usually because losing power is a great way to suddenly get a good look behind the facade of modern living.
Even people living in parts of California suffering under the reign of PG&E and their "power safety" shutoffs during potential fire events don't really experience prolonged, frequent outages, but they are a memorable nuisance (speaking as someone who lived in one of those areas).
That said, if you haven't experienced this yet, that's great, but it's likely that you will in the not-too-distant future. Power infrastructure almost everywhere is getting a bit wobbly for a couple of reasons: much of it is well beyond its originally designed lifetime, much of it hasn't been maintained as well as it should have been, and we are currently living through the disruptive effects of an increasingly unstable climate that have been predicted for decades. If your power comes from hydro, then freshwater ecosystems are experiencing deeper and longer drought cycles and the dam that provides that power is probably getting a bit old. If you live in a hurricane area, you're eventually going to get hit by a really bad one. If you live in an area that gets cold, you'll eventually get hit by a severe ice storm. If you live near a wooded area, it's going to burn. If you live deep in an urban setting and your power comes from a nuclear plant and everything has been well enough funded end-to-end to keep it in good working order, then congratulations, you probably won't experience any of these events directly.
But a lot of other people are, regardless of who they or their neighbors vote for.
Even people living in parts of California suffering under the reign of PG&E and their "power safety" shutoffs during potential fire events don't really experience prolonged, frequent outages, but they are a memorable nuisance (speaking as someone who lived in one of those areas).
That said, if you haven't experienced this yet, that's great, but it's likely that you will in the not-too-distant future. Power infrastructure almost everywhere is getting a bit wobbly for a couple of reasons: much of it is well beyond its originally designed lifetime, much of it hasn't been maintained as well as it should have been, and we are currently living through the disruptive effects of an increasingly unstable climate that have been predicted for decades. If your power comes from hydro, then freshwater ecosystems are experiencing deeper and longer drought cycles and the dam that provides that power is probably getting a bit old. If you live in a hurricane area, you're eventually going to get hit by a really bad one. If you live in an area that gets cold, you'll eventually get hit by a severe ice storm. If you live near a wooded area, it's going to burn. If you live deep in an urban setting and your power comes from a nuclear plant and everything has been well enough funded end-to-end to keep it in good working order, then congratulations, you probably won't experience any of these events directly.
But a lot of other people are, regardless of who they or their neighbors vote for.