Well...I have to kind of wonder a bit about the sanity of almost anyone who deliberately sets out to become President of the USA!

Specially in recent years.

Would a truly normal person want that job? Narcissism may in fact be a necessary requirement for almost anyone seeking that office in the first place...although...I won't completely discount the possibility that a genuine saint would take on the job out of a sense of duty and service to the nation. (Kucinich comes to mind) But...what chance would such a highly motivated and selfless individual have of ever getting enough financial support from his party and its media backers to have even the ghost of a chance of running a winning campaign?

Zilch! ;-D Not a hope in hell. The parties pick candidates who represent established interests...NOT progressive changes!

Obama got lots of funding...he was by far the best funded candidate in 2008.

He has proven to be merely a quasi-liberal trojan horse for neocon corporate-backed war interests...just like Tony Blair did when he was elected in the UK. The British thought they were voting in a progressive when they elected Tony Blair. They were dead wrong! The American liberal left has experienced the same shocking disappointment in Mr Obama...but some of them just aren't ready to admit it yet. Besides...they hate the damn Republicans so much that supporting Obama is their automatic reaction no matter what he does or doesn't do. They'd support him even if he attacked Iran, killed millions, and took away every last civil right they have left...just so they could keep sticking it to the Republicans!!!!! (and if the stark raving mad Republicans did get in, they'd very likely be even worse than Obama).

That's how the old 2-party "divide-and-conquer" tactic works in the USA. Heads they win! Tails you lose! Either way, the corporatocracy wins every election. As long as big corporate money funds your elections, I can't see any way of changing that. The media are the message. And the coporates own the media. Closed circle. You are already living in George Orwell's controlled 1984 society, but USA-style, that's all...and that requires that your 2 parties act as a fig leaf to cover the corrupt financial Oligarchy that owns both of them, body and soul.

I have no recommendations at all for what you can do about it, no solution for your vanished democracy, because I am not Superman and I am not God.

Just stating what I see happening in the USA, that's all. Nothing more than that. I can do nothing about it, and I know it. Like you, I simply want to know what's really going on in the world, and I sometimes can't resist commenting on it. If my comments bug you...(shrug)...what difference could it really make? How important is it that we disagree about something? Will it matter in 50 years? Will anyone remember it in even 1 year? I don't think so. So don't sweat it.