Thanks for the thought out response.
It does confirm all I have been saying about defeatism and nihilism.
And a bit of fanciful thought in creating a straw man.
Your attitude simply would have brought us Al Gore as President when 911 happened.
You expect perfection among humans and within a human created system.
This is why you are disillusioned and fearful. And why you try to make others share your defeated spirit.
You expect too much out of politics and politicians and do not understand they are just reflections of us and our weaknesses.
You expect them to be our champions and saviors when they never will be.
It is an imperfect world and system. The only thing we can hope for are small differences for the better in our politicians.
Politics is base, dirty and impure.
You seem to naively trusting and respectful of politics and what it could do while simultaneously cynical and bitter, believing in nothing.
“Your attitude simply would have brought us Al Gore as President when 911 happened.”
For one term. And then there never would have been Obama who is far worse than even AlGore.
Believe what you will.