We should learn from European about politics
In European politics the Elizabeth Warren's, Bernie Sanders' and Howard Deans' are the norm. You need politicians that are down to earth willing to roll their sleeves up to do some work. Green energy, Financial reform, student, teacher, and union support, etc.
In America, we put forth the fallacious argument that these candidates can not succeed because they are not popular enough. How are the Warren's, Sanders' and Deans' of European popular enough to be the norm then and voted by the people of Europe?
It is simple and quite obvious.
Many Americans see the title of the President of the United States primarily a position as CIC first, economic negotiator for wall street/big corps second and lastly as a representative of the people of the United States. See the problem? The President of the United States should be primarily the representative of the United States. We are delegating the power as citizens to the President. And we further delegate power into smaller sub divisions with the Upper and Lower House. And this continues down to the city or county level too.
If we are delegating our power to a person that puts being the CIC and economic rep for Wall Street ahead of the people we are just spinning our wheels. We are not going anywhere as a nation. and any changes that do take place can be wiped out within a decade because representing the people takes a backseat.
American politics will continue to descend into a muck and apathy will grow because it will be stagnant and many people with bright ideas to solve complex problems will walk away. This is because focus on military and Wall street doesn't make a strong nation. It only gives the perception of a strong nation; especially if the people are not there to support it.
It is said that the most supportive and patriotic armies that have fought wars historically were democracies. But if this poor level of transparency continuesm and delegation of the people's power to bee neglected indicates that we are heading towards an oligarchy.
It is ironic that the Ancient city-state of Sparta is not considered a democracy but more of an oligarchy. And yet if you examine the political and government system of ancient Sparta you start to see that we are on the verge of being worse than the ancient version of a totalitarian military state like Ancient Sparta. What kind of path are we on with this fanatic devotion to military power?
We are drunk with the power of violence from war and maximizing profit short term. But in this pursuit of short term power we have sacrificed long term vision as a nation. Most of our current and future visionaries are moving abroad and for good reason.
If was ever to have kids it definitely would not be in the United States.
It is too late? No, but most Americans should really look at how politics and voting process is conducted in other countries to realize how poor our system really is. It is showing its age and time for change.