+2...

With a third of a billion people in the US, and ~millions 'qualified' for office, we keep getting the same dregs running, that I've seen for decades. We deserve what we get, but none of those bums in any 'party' are going to make anything 'better' for us.

The political party(s), processes, and 'machine' do not allow for anyone that is truly interested and wholly competent, to run for office at most any level...

Add in huge unemployment, ugly underemployment, a 'middle class' that feels nearly hopeless, gov't gone berserk and growing enormous in our lives: that is part of the Occupy rage, and not really off the track, imo. If we all get caught in the Let'em Eat Cake mentality, and if no one is pizzed off, then no one is paying much attention, imo.