Or how they feel. I VERY STRONGLY believe people should vote for the democratic candidate in EVERY election until racists, rapists, criminals, misogynists, and child molesters are no longer nominated by them. When repukes stop putting forth environment killing agendas and stop claiming they want to take away civil rights then will I maybe start to consider how they feel. I’m not holding my breath.

If you support repukes you support these ideologies so, yeah I think politics may be beyond repair. I have heard RWNjs go on for decades about how reprehensible I am for wanting equal rights and justice. If you don’t know you’re in a war recognize you are and act accordingly

Total misreading of the situation, glib and insidious.

And FWIW a British dude asking this question is pretty rich given their current state of affairs...

It's the people in the system that need to be fixed/eliminated/etc. The rules and some of their vagueness and lack of precision, as written in the Constitution do, however, allow bad actors like Trump and McConnell to defeat and subvert them to their will. The Constitution did not anticipate the formation of political parties and "tribes" that would seek to protect their own over the interests of the country and the Constitution and they did not seem to anticipate people of such malignant ill will such as McConnell and Trump. Following this national nightmare with Trump, it is clear that some reforms need to be made.

We need to get rid of the criminals that are doing all the can to destroy or democracy. We need to come out in force on Election Day and send the packing.

Hillary beat trump by around 3 million votes. Around a hundred million registered voters stayed home in 2016. The trump cult followers came out in full force, and Hillary still had 3 million more votes. I really don't think the majority of those who stayed home will do so this time. We will have a huge blue wave and it will wash trump and his minions out of office.

We can do it!

...evident in the party-line votes".

The Republicans have spent the last 3 decades fostering and reveling in hyperpartisanship. The Democrats have searched in vain for common ground. Every attempt at bridging the gap has been slapped away.

Republicans in congress voted against bills they had sponsored once it looked like it might actually pass, lest they be seen as cooperating with Democrats and **horror of horrors** have their picture taken shaking President Obama's hand at a signing ceremony.

Weaponized hyperpartisanship has been the favorite tool in the Republican toolbox since at least Newt Gingrich's Speakership (which he got because of his hyperpartisanship). And that's not counting years, even decades, of the more localized forms of axe-grinding which Gingrich, Limbaugh, and the entire Conservative Movement fanned to full flame.