FYI...
Neither party is loyal and we haven't had a democracy in the US for awhile now. About 95% of all incumbents are kept in office at each election. This is not possible in a fair democracy, especially when the satisfaction rate among people towards Congress is in the low teens.
(I'm not saying the elections are fixed, it's the system that's fixed.)
PS - I don't know why you marked this with a CW. By marking something with CW just because it is about politics is like saying that there is something wrong with political speech -- like there is something wrong with free expression. That's anti-democratic.
People with money and political connects always have more influence, that's the way nearly all societies work. But a continual, 95%-re-election rate? That's recent. And that's not a democracy. This has happened just during the past few decades. The US, historically, has had many periods of true populism -- the revolution, Lincoln, FDR, and to a lesser extent Carter and Reagan. What we have now is different.
And the US has never killed a million of its own citizens before. Without accountability. With the media being completely silent about it. That's different.
