It all boils down to oligarchy. This country desperately wants a middle they can trust, they just don’t have it within the core of either party in our two party system right now. So we go to the extremes, and we are seeing the fallout from empowering the extreme right now. The extreme left is at least more trustworthy on reconstructing an America not based on hatred and exclusion, and they have a focus on ridiculously overdue campaign finanace reform. Once we have that (and I’m a big proponent of corporate gifting rules, nothing over $50 and guess what corporations can enjoy that same limitation and should make it illegal to compel employees to donate as well) then we can go more moderate again. But right now we need to fix our electoral process and neuter the lobbyists, we have at the core an oligarchy problem that has taken control of both major parties and is feeding all the other problems.