Midchuck has expressed the problem perfectly! ;-D

The very thing that hobbles the Democratic Party is that they are obliged for the sake of their supporters to pretend not to be in the service of the very rich and the large corporations. This makes it hard for them to seem entirely credible....and that makes it hard to get a lot of people's confidence at the voting booth...but they do sound a lot nicer than the batshit crazy Republicans, so that does work reasonably well to get quite a few people's votes...sometimes enough to win.

The Republicans don't have the problem of sounding any different from what they really are...batshit crazy fascists in the service of a mad military empire. This gives their supporters great confidence. It horrifies those who don't support them.

Having to choose between voting for these 2 parties is like having to choose between voting for Al Capone (the Republicans) and Lucky Luciano (the Democrats).

I do prefer Luciano's general style and way of speaking. No doubt about that. I'll walk across the street to avoid Capone (who is waving a baseball bat and screaming about busting heads), but I might be willing to have lunch with Luciano (who sounds like a sane man). I will vote for Luciano, not Capone, if there's no one else to vote for. However, the fact is that no matter which one of them you vote for, in the end the mob is still in control of your government.

That's Murder Incorporated. And who do they murder? Third World populations, that's who.