Check out Andrews interview with Justin Amash. It's on his RU-vid channel. Spells out the problems with Congress and how to fix them. Both parties are responsible
The two parties are a conglomerate of various groups and ideologies that otherwise wouldn't have anything in common with each other except that they somehow ended up in the same party. Progressivism and liberalism were originally two completely different ideologies until they were merged in the Democratic Party. Same thing with free market liberalism and social conservativism in the Republican Party.
Hope is an overused hypothesis. History is a record of what happened, not what should happen. History reminds us daily that people do not learn from history. History is today! What you're doing today will shape your and the nation's future. If we keep electing foolish, greedy, incompetent leaders, we will get what we have today: foolish, greedy, incompetent leaders. This is a problem for the public. The public sucks - not politicians!
Armageddon happens to millions of people every day. What's unique about you? 117 billion people have lived on this planet, and I don't hear any of them coming back with sage advice - Sorry, I misspoke: they did leave us messages, we just didn't hear them, because we consider dead people irrelevant. Good luck with your afterlife.
