Craig, compromise isn't what US political parties do, and look where it's got you: a polarized country of no one talking to each other, stuck in a rut and citizens of all persuasions saying their governance is the pits.

I am a liberal philosophically but have never voted for the Liberal Party. It's too top-down, doing our thinking for us; delivering pork as the Natural Governing Party. Conservatives were more democratic---until recently.

I wouldn't vote for any of the declared presidential candidates. Not much on offer, is it?