This country is certainly in trouble. Not just because we put opportunists who use their positions for personal gain in office but because we do not demand that the people we elect serve the real needs of the country. When they foul up we make excuses for them, "the other party was no better", in the case of hurricane victims, "they got what they deserved", when the tax coffers are raided to provide breaks and cuts for wealthy corportations and CEOs people "are tired of the government supporting folks who are not working.   We are in trouble because Democrats spend so much time worrying about what Republicans are doing. I am doing enough worrying about that. I would like to see leaders projecting plans and policies that will ensure adequate and affordable health care, I would like to see the military's efforts directed to protecting the citizens of this country rather than becoming an agent of imperialism. I am tired of seeing the erosion of the middle class and the growing impoverishment of the poorer citizens of all ages while seeing government create policies to enhance the life of the aristocrats. It is particularly sickening to see people professing a Christian faith abandoning the message of the Gospels to support a religious establishment that has joined forces with a corporate government. This very thing happened 2000 years ago when the Sadducees collaborated with the Romans and a young carpenter who came to the aid of the needy, the ailing, and the outcasts was nailed to a cross. Christianity is at its best and its strongest when it engages in changing peoples' hearts and when people's actions are motivated by care for each other.   People do not become "good" by obeying laws and rules.