I feel like our country is being forced to live in a Blue or Red mentality of things, and it just doesn't align with everyday people.
Everyday people aren't 100% in line with one mentality or the other, one set of values or the other, one set of solutions or the other...and yet those are your only viable options. You're forced to pick a side, and deal with everything that comes with aligning yourself with that side.
Both of the parties are chock-full of political animals who abuse the system, exaggerate their points and the points of their opposition, take corporate money, get forced to vote in however their party commands them to, despite their own possible personal beliefs (if they have any).
The current American political system is just a circus. Both sides blow. Whether you align with one side or the other, you have to accept all the bullshittery that comes with it.
The system we have today wasn't designed to be two major parties regardless of state lines or constituent sentiment. It was designed to be individual states representing their people and their people's interests. What we have isn't 50 different perspectives and ideas coming to the table, 50 different points of view...we have 2.
Federal law and state law work well together to some degree to adjust this, but national policy is just a total shit show. The law the governs the land and the decisions that affect every American regardless of location are controlled by a bunch of buffoons (for the most part).
THATS the problem that has to get solved, that CANT be solved...unless we have decades and decades of the American people opening their eyes, voting for individual candidates with a soul and aren't interested in being a politician for the sake of money, but TRULY care about the will of the people.
That isn't what American politics is about anymore.
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To the main point of this question, I think people are being forced into their "Team Blue" or "Team Red" mentalities, and those two teams aren't just rivals in a state of good sportsmanship. These two teams hate each other. They loathe the existence of the other team. They don't understand the other team. They actively go out of their way to vilify the other team.
People like the ease of 2 options, they like feeling like they're part of the winning team.
So what I think we end up with is the country moving more and more radically into caricatures of their team and losing their own individual perspectives or ability to think for themselves. Sections of those teams are uniting harder than they ever have before...and the sections that don't love being on that team don't get a voice because they're stuck in this "Team" system of government...so they become complacent or silent.
The task of changing the system requires a literal revolution. And there aren't enough people ready to truly do that just yet.