You are focusing on supposed individualistic personality flaws. The problem is systemic. If Big Money owns, manages, and controls elections by controlling mass media and the public’s access to info about potentially viable contenders (while also pre-vetting the selection process, itself), that means no one gets close to the Oval Office who is not beholden to those that funded them. Obviously if the problem is systemic (and it is, nor did Citizens United help matters apart from making them worse), then both parties gain the taint. Molly Ivins spoke about this–“that you dance with them that brought ya” a decade ago.
By trying to place the focus on WHICH party is worse or which is more of a sell-out, perception remains trapped inside of the Sports Arena where it’s always about two teams vying for winner and loser roles.
Roseann Barr was interviewed on R T.V. and I was amazed to hear her say this very thing along with the FACT that millions of women are over the juvenile football level of consciousness (which so quickly extends to war) that is so much a part of so many men. There are FAR wiser and more all-encompassing frames than the same one that is endlessly volleyed on this site by persons who have no other jobs.
They work hard to make the Dems as bad as or worse than Repubs. Again, that keeps consciousness locked into the old ring. And I think that is the point. What’s critical is identifying Systemic Failures…