Democrat and Republican is BS for most of the problems you mention. The answer is not with national parties. The answers have to be with local elected officials, down at the level where you can actually know who you are voting for, not just some party affiliation, but it is also the responsibility of local people to actually VOTE, so that a minority of the local populace does not decide for the majority of the local populace. My Democrat brother is a good example. He doesn't watch local news and often does not even bother to vote in local primaries, sometimes not even voting in the local general election, saying that doesn't matter, it won't change the country. But just the opposite is true, with the assholes that get elected based on party at national level and the fact that National Office holders do not, cannot and should not rule locally, per our constitution. Local leadership is where it's at. It is where people take responsibility if it is to be taken for local crime, local homeless, locally attracting industry, local taxation and how that money is spent by local people, where local judges and prosecutors are elected and or selected. These are the things that determine whether your local county, town or city work the way that is best for the community, not those clowns that go to Washington, supposedly to write and enact legislation for the good of the country, but spend most of their time raising money, finger pointing at the other side, and trying to make sure they get a piece of the pie and the pieces aren't taken from their supporters. Hell, they block even good legislation, just because the other side proposed it, rather than working to make it anything positive, less the other side scores a point. We saw that, just a couple of months ago when one party suddenly wanted to vote down legislation to help with veterans health, regarding exposure to burn pit pollution effects on those that fought for us, though they were all in favor, until the realized it was going to be passed, and the credit would go to the other side, then laughed and bragged about stopping it, until they realized it would be used against them in the next party driven election. No. The National Clowns and National Parties will not change how you live locally, at least not for the better, no matter which party you vote for. There are upwards of 252,274,000 voting age Americans, and maybe only 156,000,000 people voted, our president picked by only 81,283,000 voters, a significant minority, but larger than the less significant minority of 74,222,552 that voted against him. This lack of giving a shit to even get out and vote (much less thinking beyond party) is even worse in local elections and is why local situations are the way they are and local is where it counts, as that is where you live.
