I care because I want my government to be run by people with integrity and skill.
The best outcome is that people learn not to elect incompetent blowhards.
The only person you want in office is one who will not seek the office. Public service is (well, should be) an imposition. The catch 22 it anyone who says, "I want to be president", should be immediately disqualified.
Lithy is a kind of “cut off the nose to spite the face” guy.
I am more of a “work with what you got”, and I think the Dems are not as in need to being reset. Here’s why: my problem with Dems is merely that they let any special needs initiative in. Not everyone is up in arms about a gay cake, and I don’t think everyone should be. The flip side is a GOP that has antagonized non-whites, non-Christians, non-straight, and now, non-white grief sympathizers.
So yeah, I would hit the reset on the GOP and bring it back to fiscal conservatism, domestic focus, anti foreign entanglement, and take it out of petty social conservatism.
I won't argue that characterization. And I will admit I am unlikely to vote for a major party any time soon, so my thoughts can definitely be considered an outsider perspective and maybe both sides are happy with their respective party.
But, to me, while the GOP might be the ones at the front, with fun, simplistic, hateful, slogans, the Democrats have perpetuated all of the policies they campaign against. DACA instead of meaningful immigration reform, an endless cycle of international entanglement and escalation of drone strikes that drives most modern terrorism, and no movement on prison or drug policy. All of these things have significant impact on all of the various non-majority people that you mentioned and while they are championed by the GOP, they are never seriously challenged by the Democrats.
The GOP might be more reprehensible on the surface but in some ways doesn't that make the Democrats more dangerous? They would rather leave thing in place so they can continue to go back to that well for the election cycle. If you remove that adversary you run the risk of being challenged on your record.
Basically it take two to tango, and these two parties are having a ball.
The Republican party leans so far right now it should really be split into two: the Tea Party base it is now and a new party that resembles the Republican party pre-Moral Majority.
They only lean right in the sense of what 'right' currently means in our political spectrum. The GOP is not a party of conservative government, only conservative (read: backwards) social policy.