Re: "both parties spout a lot of self serving BS and..."
Heck yes!
I detest partisanship. I have zero respect for those who find their views anywhere other than their owns heads.
The other thing I hate about it is the street-gang / school-spirit mentality that it promotes. In my version of heaven... -- people don't divide themselves into hostile camps, and spend their time carping at each other -- nobody cares or asks what party another belongs to -- disagreement is expected and cherished (rather than , at best: resentfully tolerated, at worst: stamped out by any means available).