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I hate "Both Sides"-ism, but it's hard to deny when you look at the historical record. 50+ years since Carter, and we've had Clinton, Obama, and Biden, and not one of them got us health care. Obama got closest, with a REPUBLICAN plan. The one time they throw us a bone, and it's a Republican bone.
Add in everything else, Abortion, taxes, minimum wage, college tuition, housing, and more, and we've gotten literally nothing, or even gone BACKWARDS, with these Democrats, for decades.
It's like the middle management at your work. There's one supervisor that everybody loves, and everybody wishes they were on their team. Then there is the supervisor that everybody hates because they make every minute of every day at work miserable. Nobody wants to work for them.
But they both have the same basic job - to advance their THEIR boss' agenda. They accomplish it different ways, but ultimately they are serving the same agenda, and have the same objective.
That's the two-party system, and we should just opt out. I've been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote 49 years ago. Neither party knows what I'm up to, and neither party can count on my vote. If you want my vote, you have to EARN it, every time.
Opting out got us Trump.