Here's the key issue. Our political system has become increasingly polarized going back to the Clinton years. Politicians no longer seek compromise. They don't even really try. It's all about smearing the other side in order to try and grab more power the next go around. Neither the republicans nor the democrats will budge, because they have midterms coming up and are looking to solidify or shift the power balance, respectively. Both parties try and ram as much poorly thought out, incomplete, irresponsible garbage while they have the balance in their favor, and when the balance swings the other way, they obstruct. In the Obama years, it was the democrats rushing healthcare reform and such with the republicans taking the role of obstructionist. Now, it's the opposite. It wasn't right then, and it isn't right now. The fact is that neither party is truly serving the American people. We're the ones getting screwed, while they ask us to thank them, to donate more money to their campaigns. Sadly, the power elite have convinced us that there are only these two perverted choices. This two party system needs to die. That's the real problem.
