Be careful what you wish for ...
I suppose that your view on this simple question defines your political affiliation more than anything else. Now you could sit back in your guise as an armchair quarterback and nitpick everything taking place in the real world as is the want of most people, but this is unproductive at best, destructive at worst, solves nothing and produces ulcers and hatred amongst your fellow countrymen.
Take a look around our country and what do you see? What kind of irrational human being develops a vitreous hatred for others based on little more that a difference of opinion? Who do you see demonstrating and rioting in the streets? Who is constantly endeavoring to repudiate the US Constitution? Who believes the wants and desires of illegal aliens and sworn enemies of the US supersedes those of the American people themselves? Who believes that pacifism and appeasement will solve all our international difficulties? Who is hell bent on the destruction of our capitalistic infrastructure? Who believes that the American people are so stupid as to be unable to make any of life’s decisions for themselves? Who promises everything to everyone as long as they are not in a majority even though they know they can never deliver? Who uses racism as a political weapon while actively working to ensure that minorities continue to stagnate and remain in poverty? Who openly supports socialism but venomously denies this truth? Of course, the answer to all these questions is the Democrat Party.
If this is really where you want to go, what you want for our Nation, then the Democrat Party is for you. But if you have half a functioning brain, minimal common sense, a desire to remain free and independent and self determining, and adhere to the principles of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then the Republican Party is for you. There are problems with all governments as it is human nature to be greedy and self serving. If this were untrue, and we lived in an IDEAL world, then it wouldn’t matter what form of government we had or if we had one at all … BUT we must live in the REAL world and must make decisions that mostly aren’t ideal. You can buffer a conservative agenda with liberal philosophy but it cannot work the other way around because the liberals are want to change and ultimately control every aspect of everyone’s lives … which is diametrically opposed to conservatism as well as impossible to achieve as has been demonstrated throughout recorded history. There has never ever been a successful socialist society of any persuasion for the simple reason that people are what they are. Power corrupts itself without checks and balances. Government controls everything in a socialist regime and cannot exist with any kind of opposition to their authority. Most people go through life with blinders on and cannot see the forest through the trees. Be real careful what you wish for, because you more often than not end up with something altogether different than you conceived or were promised.