Since Bill Clinton what choices did we have?

Do you really want an answer to this? We had the choice to vote for a competent HOA board chairperson (who was a local bully in high school), because that incompetent chairperson also entered local politics a few years later, and was elected selectman. Then later, the mayor suddenly died, and the opposing party was in disarray, so this incompetent guy ran for mayor and was surprisingly elected. He stayed mayor for 4 years and shored up his political power by pandering to all sorts of outside interests while ignoring his town that he was supposed to care for. A nearby congressional district became vacant due to retirement and using his well-built connections he ran for congress and was elected! He was in congress for 8 terms, and built up his power constantly (often using dubious tactics). The senior senator in his state got old and frail and had to retire. He grabbed the opportunity and took that senate seat. He served in the senate for 2 terms and is now pretty much ensconced there for as long as he wants. Since he is still only in his late 50s, there is talk that he may someday be on the main ticket.

So, yes, we had plenty of choices. We just made the wrong choices. We repeatedly, for decades, voted for that incompetent, sometimes nefarious, person at all levels of representing us. Starting from the lowly HOA board ... because we didn't bother to find someone competent to run for it. So YES, of course we had a choice!