I think there are more than just a few of us in the US that are disenfranchised from the parties. I lean conservative for fiscal reasons, but tend to be quite liberal on social issues. I've seen too many programs initiated by the Democrats that don't have an ending. It's not so much that the idea they propose isn't valid, or even needed, its that Democratic programs have tended to stretch to perpetuity by design. They also tend to be band-aids rather than cures. The focus tends to be on helping the individual who was injured/oppressed/whatever rather than stopping the forces that caused the injury. I'm all for helping anyone who needs a hand, but we need to zoom out for a while and look at our bigger pictures to find real solutions. Like I said above, IMO we are just spending money on the wrong things.

Now please don't make the leap from that and assume I'm saying the Republicans are doing any better. They're not, but their proposals have tended to be finite in duration a little more often and smaller in scope overall. It is truly a case of the lesser of the evils for me.