Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt

Nope, don't think it matters in the slightest. At a minimum 80% of both houses of Congress, plus the Whitehouse administration are bought & paid for by corporations. Even if some young, intelligent, good hearted go-getter gets elected into the congress or senate, and wants to invoke meaningful change to help the common American, there's not a chance he's going to succeed.

On top of that, you have the Pentagon, which is probably even more powerful than the US government. There's a reason why every US politician is screaming that the deficit needs to be cut, but almost nobody will even hint at cutting military spending. US is a very militaristic country, and the military is running a good portion of the show. The aspects the military doesn't run, the mulit-national corporations fill in for.

If there was ever a president who was going to invoke real change within the US, it would have been Obama. But nope, he turned out to be the same typical asshole as the rest of them.