But the end game's pretty much the same.
Sure, we get to argue about gun control or abortion, or whether or not grandma's going to starve if they take the extreme measure of cutting 1½% of the budget, but otherwise this train is headed to the same station, regardless of who's in the locomotive.
Unfortunately this is what I see. Our system is a Republic not a direct democracy. It was never meant to allow the people to exercise direct control. It was not the American people who directly voted for the civil war that killed so many Americans on both sides, it was Lincoln. I was not asked about Libya, Obama decided that in violation of the Constitution, he didn't even ask Congress (look how at many people care at the direct violation of the Constitution). Things that we control and things that we don't, either by design or by forces beyond our control, or because we allowed things to deteriorate to that point.
The Republicans are against gun control and against abortion and by golly, I AM A REPUBLICAN.