IMO the Democrats and Republicans are beyond corrupt.
In my opinion, that is the wrong attitude to take.
No large organization (including a federal government) is going to be 'perfect'. Just too many moving parts, too many people involved. There will always be problems of some type or another. Obama ran a pretty clean administration, but even he had a few problem (e.g. the attempt to trace gun sales in mexico. And don't forget "mustard-gate".)
But his administration (for the problems it had) was nothing like the Trump administration, where his associates who have had serious legal problems has reached double digits and scandals happened on a monthly (if not daily) basis, and many of those who had legal problems were pardoned by Trump.
The characterization that "both parties are corrupt" plays into republican hands, and gives them a justification to, well, continue being corrupt. (i.e. "ignore the 100 scandals we had this year because the Democrats made one mistake in the past.") You need to differentiate between what is a reasonable number of scandals is and/or normal reactions to events, and what is truly indicative of corruption. Recent Democratic administrations do not rise to the level of "corrupt" whereas the Trump administration did, based on the total number of scandals and the way they reacted to them.
They are working a system that is divorced from the will of the people in many ways.
Being "divorced from the will of the people" is not
always a bad thing. A government has to weigh a lot of factors... what is legal/constitutional, what's beneficial long-term vs. short term, information that "the people" are not privy to. "The people" may demand things that are unconstitutional or will cause them more problems than benefits. For example, "the people" might demand elimination of environmental regulations because they think it will improve their employment prospects, but the government has to weigh the impact of that change on what could happen decades from now.
Now, that doesn't necessarily mean a politician should be given free reign to lie and break campaign promises. (They should make an effort to be honest with voters and follow through with promises they make). But they also should not be governed by opinion polls.