If you guys want a decent country it'd probably be best to just move out.
From the beginning of America's history things had to be built on compromise. In the past 50 or so years it's moved away from that and now people are dumb and only vote for party loyalties or the candidates only act in order to get their party's support (and therefore DINERO $$$$).
Acting for your party's support = $$$$$ but you don't get all the issues done
Acting on all the right issues to get the country back on track = No money = You won't get elected
Trying to get everything done right in the 4-8 years you are president = you're a dumbass get the hell out
Acting to get the support of both parties = impossible, don't try it
Obama got ambitious and PROMISED to get everything done and get the country back on track. That's basically how he got the nobel peace prize, as reported by every news station I tune in to. By promising to do amazing things. I can't go on anything else, there are no more sources. This is it, the "facts".
And then, it's simply unpossible. If you don't get shit done your first 4 years you won't get a second 4 years. If you try to get everything done you don't get shit done the first 4 years and thus can't finish so you can enjoy your little set up get torn all the way down by the opposing party over the next 4 years. Learn to pass the torch. Get the important things done any MAYBE your party and your ideas will proceed for another 4 years.
But then that would rely on cooperation from the other party, compromise, and "PROMISES" that the other major party wouldn't go around and fuck up all you've done so it's more "CONSERVATIVE" or more "LIBERAL" to fit their party so they get they money for their campaign for their next 4 years.
Simply put, no matter who you elect, there would have to be massive revolutionary changes in human nature for this country to get "back on track". Right now you can vote for one of two extremes that have good ideas for some things and fuck TERRIBLE ideas for other things, for the purpose of their next campaign.
You want a smart candidate? Get one that promises stuff, gets his party's support, gets elected, and goes around and says "up yours" to his party and compromises between the two no matter how pissy they get. That's a smart candidate, but if you have a dumb congress it's all for naught, because if they get pissy, your legislature won't get passed until something in the bill benefits them instead of the public, which makes us go backwards again.
I don't usually bitch about this but I am fucking tired of it.