The US political system badly needs a reasonable third side. Both sides have gone really bad, and arguably lost their contact with the majority of voters.
I'd love to abandon the Democratic party. They have proven themselves to be useless in all the decades of my voting life. But they aren't blatantly evil and corrupt like Republicans. Democrats are at best a feeble foil to Republican bullshit, but they are literally the only foil that exists to choose from.