The American political machine blows my mind. There are some big problems on the horizon, and these problems will require cooperation (or at least a little capitulation). Let's hope they figure it out.
I apologize in advance for the emotional and vague speech but the American democracy is an apparatus built to aimlessly move some rusty wheels and clatter about just nosily enough to give off the appearance of some kind of work being done. I believe there are people in politics genuinely interested in solving problems and making the country better for the majority of its citizens, but these people are helplessly stuck in this perpetual, over-complicated, irrelevant machine designed to fool the eye and distract us just long enough for someone, somewhere to shovel as much money and power into the right pile.
The most dreadful thing is that this is a system we are selling all over the world, and more often than not forcing it on people quite literally at gunpoint. But as long as enough Americans are more or less content with their lives and happy enough with their social/economic status the machine will keep on working.
