I'm independent, don't like either party, and try to be as objective as possible. The way it's going I'm probably not going to vote. I won't vote for any republican and won't vote for Clinton. If Sanders somehow won the nomination I would probably vote for him, but that's starting to look unlikely. (and for the record I don't think he's infallible or everything he's said was 100% right either, but he's mostly right and the only one that might give a damn about people) With that said thinking that both political parties are equally bad is nothing more than blind thinking, especially when it comes to economic matters.
The democrats are a crappy party with a bunch of bad politicians that don't really care that much about the common people anymore above Wall Street, and are full of career politicians. The republicans are all that taken an order or magnitude worse in today's politics, especially since they have championed all the regressive policies that have ruined us economically for the past five decades. I have yet to see that trickle down stuff. I suppose it all evaporated on the way down.
The democrats are a crappy party with standard crappy politicians. The republicans are full of nothing but totally bat-shit-cray people, that absolutely don't give a damn about you and want to manipulate just about everything you do if your not rich, powerful, or your acts somehow don't coincide to the religion they support, and by the way only their religion "counts". They support a system of rationalized selfishness that they care about more than the well being of people or even life itself. I'm often stuck wondering who are the ones that are actually delusional enough to believe what they spout, and which ones are lying to try and make themselves look good to the public. At least the democrats have to pretend to pander to a more wide range of people that might include you, and sometimes actually pay attention to what the majority of people want (not to mention what the majority of scientist say). True the democrats are just plain terrible, and only remotely look good because the republicans have become so unthinkably abysmal they are better because of comparison, but don't fool yourself into thinking they are equally bad. Then you have Trump. A man who somehow actually makes standard republicans look good in comparison because of borderline insanity and neurosis, lack of connection to the real world, and his enormous stupidity. I would point out his outright lies, but I get the sense that his supporters just don't care anymore, if they ever did, even if they readily admit he does so either overtly or secretly to themselves. He might be historically good at telling dumb people what they want to hear.
I don't know how so many people can support economic systems that fly in the face of logic, and don't even pass a sniff test, especially after they have not only failed to make the common people's lives better for decades now but have actively screwed them over to a huge degree.
While there might be unusual cases where some individuals in an election might be better than the person they are running against, I can think of only three ways anybody reasonably rational would support the republicans in general anymore as bad as they have now gotten.
1. They are rich and powerful, and not just rich and powerful, but very selfishly so whether they publicly say so or not. They got theirs (by means though what almost all people have gotten rich and powerful through history, by luck in some for or another) and want to maintain and gather as much money, influence, and power for themselves as possible to the expense of everybody else or at least everybody but a small segment of people. They want to do that no matter how much it hurts or is unfair to other people. Cruel, yes. Selfish, yes. Crappy human beings, yes. At least as long as their honest to themselves and everybody else, and especially if they don't pretend to be good people, to care about others, or engage in self back patting at least there is still sanity to their thinking and actions no matter how awful they are.
2. People that are borderline religious extremest or fanatics or at least hardcore "evangelical". They want everybody else forced to follow their dogma. Maybe, if everybody else is lucky they just want to do what they want with their religious beliefs unhindered no matter how unfair it is to everybody else, or how it hurts our societies institutions. They want a thinly veneered over semi-theocracy if not worse. This happens no matter if what other people that don't believe as they do do directly hurts anybody else or even at all. We also aren't talking about religion or spirituality in general, it's all hardcore Christian dogma (as that is the only one that apparently counts). The only exceptions to that are if that dogma and teaching come into conflict with point #1 above, then those aspects don't count either. Sacrifice is allowed to go out the window and the attainment of material possessions takes precedence, whether it hurts others or not. Selfish, yes. Disturbingly iconoclastic, yes. Hypocritical yes, but at least their some sanity to it however bad it is. I also say this as somebody that considers themselves pretty religious.
3. They are single issue voters to a very extreme degree (that generally doesn't involve religion which more point #2) with things like gun control, affirmative action, immigration or some other similar issue. They are so stuck on it that they will go with whoever supports their issue...NO...MATTER...WHAT, even if they acknowledge most other things about the person they support are absolute crap, and it will hurt them and probably everybody else greatly. Foolish, often yes. Bad measuring of cost to benefit, probably. Lack of foresight, yes, but if one is honest and has objectively thought through that the issue is that important to them at least there is a bit of sanity to it.
Believing in some form of darwinistic or cowboy capitalism in de facto religious terms and thinking it's a system that's going to magically make things better or fair for the majority of people (despite decades of reality showing it does the opposite) instead of carefully thinking about what would help the greatest number of people the fairest, and would give everybody as much influence as possible...not rational or sane. Neither is believing a system designed around maximizing everybody individual greed as it's basic means of function is going to create benefit for most or not funnel resources and power into the hands of the few.
Going with tradition or conservativism mostly for it's own sake despite it hurting you, others, and disenfranchising people or treating them unfairly under the law...not rational or sane.
Healthy normal distrust of government is good and is one thing. With the nature of humanity is sadly necessary. Somebody having a near pathological distrust of government and it's functions though, but yet thinking businesses, maybe the only things in history worse and more untrustworthy than governments, are great and should be unrestricted and more free to do as they want...not rational or sane.
Having a short term gain of tax reduction or monetary gain to you personally at the expense of hurting yourself in the future, and hurting everybody else which will hurt you even more when one wants to maximize the benefit to oneself and somebody should know better...not rational or sane.
