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  A combination of gerrymandering and focus on highlighting pro-Trump candidates predicts more gridlock , but that gridlock exists mainly because voters are forced to choose between Democrats and Republicans every cycle.  And regardless of which of the two you favor, one party makes things worse while the other refuses to make things better. Both are ridiculously pro-war, radically capitalist and utterly corrupted by numerous industries and independently wealthy people. Who virtue signals to which wedge issue group is the only thing that separates the two at this point.

 In America's binary political system, voters are led to believe that the Republican Party represents all that is politically right in the country while the Democratic Party represents everything that is politically left. This could not be further from the truth . And with just a bit of searching even "approved" sites, you too can discover the reality of the situation. Let's begin with this story about one of the congressional caucuses : A large group of House Democrats are stepping up pressure on party leaders to revive their stalled economic agenda and avoid hitting voters with huge healthcare bills only weeks before the November midterms. Fifty-seven members of the centrist New Democrat coalition led by Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington signed a letter meant to highlight the steep health insurance premium increases that many people would face if a pandemic-era financial assistance program expires in December. The cohort included many Democratic lawmakers locked in t...

 They will tell you that there are stark difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, yet claim that bases of both parties (aka, the Far-Left and the Far-Right) are virtually the same. All while doing nothing other than supporting the status quo. Besides: what's "left" now can become the status quo two or three decades from now:

...Barack Obama has Evan Bayh .