For me the saddest thing is that we're all being played. Both parties are in the pocket of our true masters, our multinational corporations and the oligarchs they produce. They are successfully pitting us against ourselves using their control of the media. To watch Fox or CNN you'd swear that the other 50% of the country is dead set on destroying America. Both networks are trash. Both networks dwell on the other's fringes and extremes.
Our puppet masters are winning. We are all fighting each other while the middle class shrinks, our manufacturing base dwindles and the wealth of America is offshored to tax havens. Both parties have contributed to the decline of America and the politicians are fine with it because they're getting paid, they will make out ok.
I don't want a civil war amongst the people. I want a day of reckoning where the politicians from both parties pay the highest price for their treason. And to solve the problem once and for all.. ALL money is removed from politics.
It should be considered treason for a politician to take any money from ANY special interest group. All elections should be publically funded, no private funding where special interest groups try to outspend each other to manipulate the public with deceptive ads. No 1 or 2 years of campaigning. Politicians should put their agenda and ideals and plans online for all to see (in common writing, not legalese) and then sign an oath to follow the plan. No special interest groups PERIOD should be allowed to have conversations with a politician OFF RECORD. No backroom deals. No lobbyists roaming the halls of congress.
The penalty for not following these criteria should be a charge of treason which is punishable by death.