Originally Posted by Relentless

The current political process does not allow the possibility of a great president. Not only would FDR, JFK and other great Presidents have been unelectable under the current campaigning rituals, they would never have even considered running for office. No sane person wants to campaign for three years, have ever family secret exposed, spend their lives chasing corporate dollars and dutifully supporting the people paying their bills whethere they agree with them or not... People like Mike Bloomberg have the possibility of being a great president, but the electoral system is geared to attract asshats like Donald Trump instead.

It is destroying our nation rapidly and the people who would have to fix it are the same ones directly benefiting from how brokn it is... So that fix becomes less likely every cycle.