The answer to this question Don is that the system is broken. No matter who gets elected, the corporations will be in control of government regardless of Democrats or Republicans.The handwriting in on the wall.

Elections also may be compromised as they were under Bush v. Gore.

I choose to elect the American people to stand up to America's new Oligarchy and reclaim democracy. I would love to see a Bernie Sanders elected (not possible given the autocracy of the Supreme Court and a deluded Congress). I think Kucinich is honest as well.

The J Curve illuminates this issue. One of the points that is important to this discussion is that when expectation and reality are in conflict, revolution occurs. A country's people can be likened to the frog in the boiling water. It if gets too hot fast, the frog jumps out. If it is a slow boil, the frog will get cooked. Think of what's happened to the U.S. in the last couple of decades. We are boiling to death.

"The x-axis of the political J-Curve graph measures the "openness" (of freedom) of the State in question, and the y-axis measures the stability of that same state. It suggests that those states that are 'closed'/undemocratic/unfree (such as the Communist dictatorships of China and Cuba) are very stable; however, as one progresses right, along the x-axis, it is evident that stability (for relatively short period of time in the lengthy life of nations) decreases, creating a dip in the graph, until beginning to pick up again as the 'openness' of a state increases; at the other end of the graph to closed states are the open states of the West, such as the United States of America or the United Kingdom. Thus, a J-shaped curve is formed.
States can travel both forward (right) and backwards (left) along this J-curve, and so stability and openness are never secure. The J is steeper on the left hand side, as it is easier for a leader in a failed state to create stability by closing the country than to build a civil society and establish accountable institutions; the curve is higher on the far right than left because states that prevail in opening their societies (Eastern Europe, for example) ultimately become more stable than authoritarian regimes.
Bremmer's entire curve can shift up or down depending on economic resources available to the government in question. Therefore, Saudi Arabia's relative stability at every point along the curve rises or falls depending on the price of oil; China's curve, meanwhile, analogously depends on the country's economic growth."