Corporate run senate because the insurance companies have gained and the single payer option was defeated. Insurance lobbies own the senate.

The reason we don't have Romney is because he mishandled his campaign, not that he was liked by the GOP.

The rightward shift is toward economic division where the GOP are the fat cats who are thumbing their nose at working people. Also, the religious right has imprisoned the minds of its followers.

The future is bleak now but don't count out another 1929 crash and subsequent reforms.