You write as if the American people are mere dupes and fools, their supposed good sense and decent morals hijacked by a band of criminals. People get the governments they elect. Governments produce policies and decisions that reflect what politicians understand to meet the concerns, needs, desires, of the people who elected them. If you persistently elect the members of the same political elites, each with their own relatively unchanging political agendas, you will get the same rotating cycle of policy initiatives that are related solely to the needs, wishes, and desires of the elites from which you draw your government.
The problem isn't with government - which is doing exactly what you elected it to do - keeping the same tired, decrepit, inefficient political machine functioning to maintain the status quo. The problem is with the ignorant, the single-issue-obsessed, the lazy, and the stupid - who form the electorate that sends people into government who govern in the interest of issues and causes that are of concern to them, not of concern to the electorate.
Americans generally are intellectually lazy when it comes to politics. They see no further than the ends of their own noses - otherwise pious non-entities such as Huckabee could not be in contention for the Presidency; otherwise the super-slick and the super-pretentious, such as Romney, could not compete. I don't give a damn whether Romney is a Mormon, a Satanist, or a Baptist. What repulses me is that the man has never suffered a day in his life and what he knows about the lives of ordinary Americans could be written on the back of a book of matches with a paste brush. Yet he believes he can somehow represent the interests of all Americans. The man is either deluded to the point of hallucination; or a fraud who, like Bush, will serve only the interests of those elite groups in which has membership.
Neither, if any of you had any sense, would that mewling political infant Obama, or the demented harridan Clinton, be in contention. The first knows nothing and his first term in office will be nothing but a series of disasters: his inexperience and juvenile idealism will ensure it's so. As for Clinton, you only have to look in her eyes to see the out and out lunacy lurking there.
McCain is now so old that the strain of his first years in office will kill him - and then we will be at the mercy of whatever vice-president he selects to serve with him. Possibly Giuliani, if McCain wins and has any sense, and then at least something might get done. But until the American people understand that they get the government they want and deserve, the commodification of our national life will continue on just as it is, America will continue to produce nothing but weapons she either gives to the Saudis or squanders on pointless wars that yield America no good in return, and her politics will remain where it is - at the level of squabbles between pampered children who have no real understanding of what it is they're fighting over.
You accuse the current crop of candidates of deceit. There's no deceit involved. What's happened is that the principles of governance of a Republic have been forgotten, and what presently substitutes for those principles are short term greed, denial of urgently pressing issues such as energy security, and complacent hubris.
And the fault is yours, because you elect these idiots. If you elect idiots for their idiocy you can hardly turn round and expect them to behave as serious, intelligent public servants dedicated to the welfare of the Republic, rather than as criminals, buffoons and venal clods whose interest is in securing enough pork for their constituents so that those constituents will once again returm them to power and the whole wretched circus continue on as before.
You elected them. You are to blame.
