Politics is nothing more than who you prefer stealing and wasting your money.
The left prefers that the govt steal it and dole it out to the poor and special interests like public sector unions, welfare, govt agencies, etc.
The right prefers the govt steal it for wars and military spending.
The vast working and middle class gets screwed by both parties in this con game as one parties taxes the crap out of you and spends the money in ways that help no one. The other party borrows and spends it.
At the end of the day, the result is the same, unless you are a bum on welfare or a corporate titan, you are likely getting screwed royally, whether its direct taxation, inflation, less freedom, etc.
These parties get us to fight over personalities like Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc, as opposed to discussing the polices they are actually enacting.
If we discussed the policies as opposed to the personalities, Obama, Bush, Clinton et al would be in a shared jail cell.