Originally Posted by Frownland

A good guys/bad guys dynamic is too simple for the world that we live in. You can't become a major politician without compromising your moral center because American politics rewards partisan kowtowing over ethical and effective legislation or leadership. Not only do our politics reward that behaviour, it attracts it simple because of the power that it entails. That's without getting into the fact that both parties are on the same side of the coin because they won't make any changes that threatens the corrupt system that pays their salary. There are loads of issues that aren't solved by either political party because the partisan split is powerful enough to drive people to the polls and vote for them. The Democrat party is the polar opposite of the "resistance" that it's trying to brand itself as.

tl;dr actions and human nature speak louder than speeches and sales pamphlets.