I have been thinking for a while that we only have a single party system called the Republocrats.

One of my favorite atheist authors Douglas Addams. Has the president of the galaxy as someone who does not want the job. Because anyone who does would not be suitable.

Yes. Substitute "leader and leadership" for "politician and politics" and you'll realize what trouble we're in.

I am not happy with either party, but I have never experienced any kind of discrimination because I happen to be a white man. That just sounds like a bit of alt right propaganda to me. I have yet to meet a white person who feels they are discriminated against that would trade places with a person of color to be treated as people of color are beign treated.

I just feel that the right wing (republicans in the U.S.) have completely sold out to big business interests, and the left wing (democrats in the U.S.) have slightly more than half sodl out to those same interests. The problem is based in how political campaigns are funded, and the expectation that large donations will pay off big for those who make such donations. That is what is at the root of my frustrations with both parties...

So, I guess my upset isnt' really with the parties themselves so much as the system currently in place which corrupts both sides.

I will never again vote D or R. There aren't really two political parties. There is one, with two divisions. What is needed is more choices, but those in power are quite good at convincing Americans that voting "third party" is a waste of a vote.

I come from Portland, Oregon....the liberal capital of the USA, it seems. I loved it there growing up, and I felt for a time I understood the culture of the city and its progressive and humanist values. And then it became a grotesque caricature of itself, almost overnight. It became the mecca for so-called oppressed subcultures. So I fully understand what you mean about SJWs. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting several angry white women in PDX, axes to grind for no other apparent reason than to commit political seppuku by chopping down the tree of true progress for women's rights. That's just one example of a dozen I could give. No matter how worthwhile a cause, if there are loud, angry, obnoxious people demanding to be heard it frequently does it more harm than good. I believe that is your point? And if so, it's spot on.

Very much in agreement. The political system should be about compromise and respectful discourse. The last election was a name calling match and hugely polarized. I find logic and reason on both sides but demagoguery takes hold and conflates good ideas with bad ones and argues irrelevant politically convenient points.

I find the attitude a bit damaging: to claim that all political alternatives (sadly in the US there are really just two) are bad is ignoring the fact that maybe, they are still not equally bad. So if a person is somewhat dissatisfied with the democrats and does not like the republicans and as a consequence does not take part in the political process, their vote are lost to at least prevent the bigger of two evils. Voting is simply about choosing what is most compatible with one's views and the expectation that a party will conform 100% with one's own views is just naive.
Having said that, I am just completely flabbergasted by the fact that somebody like Trump, somebody who always has been such an obvious moron, self-absorbed asshole, misogynist, racist and somebody who already shows obvious signs of mental issues was voted into the most powerful politicial position on this globe by so many people.
I have no explanation for this and I cannot really come up with an excuse for such an irresponsible choice. In my view, everyone who voted for him is a moron as well.

Where I live, most white people are liberals.

I don’t know what sjws is.