Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Why I seek change

I'll bounce off the Dennis discussion & try to head us back to the topic at hand (noting, as I go, that said discussion might well be worthy of its own thread) --

I am always surprised by those who feel that one candidate, or one election, can turn everything around. You want to talk "ship of state," this is a very big ship and it doesn't exactly turn on a dime.

To expect Dennis Kucinich - or anyone else for that matter - to ride up on a pure white horse and Change Everything (and yes, Obama, Clinton, and McCain, that includes you too) strikes me as naivete.

Handbaskets to hell can travel quite quickly, as we've seen - still, a lot of groundwork was laid to pave the way, over more than one previous administration, as other threads have discussed.

It isn't all going to get fixed by one candidate, or even two terms. Repairs are going to take a long time, I'm afraid - the Supreme Court membership doesn't change with a new President, for instance.

I know that we all want it Fixed, Dammit, and Right Now, but it just isn't going to happen that way, and I wonder if anyone is doing the long-term planning that needs to be done to get us back on track.