Politics is the ultimate manifestation of our flaws as a society. Is it any wonder that it is a field dominated by power hungry lawyers? Just go down the ranks and you will see an overwhelming majority were at one time praticing attorneys.
With that in mind, politics has always been and always will be a choice between the lesser of two evils. For many years now (particularly since 9/11) the choice has been an extremely easy one.
After all is said and done, it is the citizenry of this country who deserve the blame for what I've mentioned above. Any system will suffer when the electorate makes hopelessly ignorant choices and would rather watch "Survivor 18" than a sunday morning political news show. Nonetheless, it is our system and we must live under it or we can pack up our things, resign our citizenship and move, plain and simple.