I feel your pain, but think it may never end if you expect some miracle will create--for the first time ever--a truly competitive two-party (at least) political economy in Hawaii.  

I think Hawaii's now mostly Republican-Lite (biz+labor) Democratic Party "Establishment" is similar to the currently dominant Demo-publican "Establishment" ruling class duopoly inside the Beltway--where sufficiently wealthy and/or sufficiently large, well-organized special interests increasingly control, IMO, both the legislative and administrative branches of the federal government.

Despite the polarized gridlock, the Demo-publican ruling class will defend their shared wealth and privileges as much or more than they truly compete--now mostly over "culture war" issues and, to a relatively lesser degree (at least until now--maybe), over "it's the economy, stupid" pocketbook issues.

Time will tell if econ differences between each side of the Demo-publican coin will become separated by more than coin flips.