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The problem is both sides ARE bad. Both ... two. The two party system is broken, our Constitution was not built to handle political parties and George Washington says he regrets they were not banned in the Constitution. He said that political parties would destroy the USA in his farewell speech to the nation. Independent parties are the only noncorrupt option ... but they are not viable in a two party system.
They designed a system that will only ever result in a 2 party system. If George didn't like that he should have designed a better system.
Now we are stuck with it, not because we want it, or because it works, but because we cannot in any universe agree what should replace it.
We need to do what the Tea Party did to the republicans. Get involved on the local level, take over the underpinnings of the party bit by bit, and become a constant thorn in the side of the conservative democratic leadership.
The tea party was the origin of the term astroturfing. It was designed by billionaires who pumped money into it to make it look like a grassroots organization.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers
They had to do that because the stuff they were fighting for was monstrous. Still, the blueprint of what they did doesn't require billionaire backing if you're not trying to destroy the country and it was effective. They got everything they wanted.