Elections only matter to those who are in it for the political spoils, and even then, only to the tribal chiefs distributing the spoils to their tribal loyalists.

Bill Moyers keeps harping about the new gilded age we are in, but I don't here that sort of analysis coming from anyone else. Since he will not be with us for much longer, I'm not sure who will lead the charge to clean out and exile big business interests from the halls of government the way it had to be done in the FDR era. But this is the cycle here in the US. Business interests take over government, corruption and graft reign supreme for a couple of decades as they did in the late 19th and early 20th century, and have been for the last couple decades of the 20th century (it really got going big time as soon as the Republicans got back in under Reagan), and continues now.

We'll have to have another Depression before it gets better.