Agreed. I am Democrat as much by default as anything. But the GOP, once at least claiming to stand for fiscal responsibility and sensible national defense, had long ago lost even any semblance of a claim to those causes. They are now bald-faced Machiavellian power hungry liars oppressing the working and middle class citizens. And they have cynically used people race-based and "other"-based fears to dupe them into supporting the party of Corprate protectionism and largesse. It is horrible. We really need a multi-party parliamentary system in this nation to have actual proportional representation. Here it is winner-take-all. We have been betrayed by the exploitable weaknesses of the two-party system.

Unfortunately, people erroneously think we can change that by voting for third party presidential candidates every four years. That is a futile red herring that does NOTHING to change Congress, which is the main root of our government problems. Bleh!!