10. You're ruled from the top down no matter who is in power
In this respect, just like with regards to foreign policy, the two parties are really just different sides of the same coin. With the reliance upon the centralized federal government as the impetus of change that is inherent in the general philosophy of liberalism (and one of the prime distinctions between liberalism and progressivism), it can hardly be said that even a liberal administration would advocate a "bottom-up" grassroots kind of system.
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