As I have said over and over on this thread -- we have to deal with the system we have, not the one we want. If we could get JR nominated or draft Rush or Sean, well and good. In the absence of that, we have to mold the candidate selection processes to our will as much as we can, then LIVE WITH THE RESULT. And adjust our sights and goals accordingly.
If you want to work the system better know what the system is. It still matters that the North won the civil war, and that the North exploited the Continent in a particular way and amassed huge fortunes that enabled them to rule the country. They are our nobility. They think they are entitled to rule. Now they are in the process of turning Washington DC, into an American version of Paris, where both economic and political power are centralized. The place means a something than it did in, say. 1963, when Lyndon Johnson became president, and an out-of-towner could drive around the city more easily than he could Austin, today, , today and it was hard to find a motel room when Congress was in session. As the wealth of the Northeast relative to the rest of the country has decreased, the more the desire to control things has increased.