[Zhang Fei]

It’s kind of sad that our electoral choices are limited to Democrats who want to do social work at home and Republicans who want to use the military to do social work abroad.

[logician2u]

Sadder still is the tendency of major media to ignore any candidates running "against the establishment," whether they have an "R" or a "D" after their names or are independent of the major parties.

Exceptions, of course, are candidates willing to throw big bucks of their own into TV and print advertising such as, currently, Donald Trump. He gets a lot of free air time and plenty of ink in the expectation that he'll shower money on the media should he decide to run.

You are right that we have two parties devoted to social work, though. Neither is particularly friendly to an old-fashioned concept called "freedom."