Speaking as a non-american closely following US politics, it appears you get the Congress for which you don't vote as well. The amount of partisanship on one s

Speaking as a non-american closely following US politics, it appears you get the Congress for which you don't vote as well. The amount of partisanship on one side of the aisle (first example that comes to mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/politics/syria-bombing-republicans-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/politics/syria-bombing...) and the fact that there are very few congress members who don't fall in line to their party means that no matter which party you vote for, you're getting what you're getting now.