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How is it considered depressing that we have shined a spotlight on the depth of the corruption?

That is not what is depressing. That is a good thing. What is depressing is that the right side of the aisle has once again engaged in their favorite pastime, the circular firing squad. All one need do is examine the extreme vitriol on this site the past few months and the embarrassing mudfest between Trump and Cruz.
I will still vote for the nominee because the alternative is a nightmare. But I am a) ashamed at how we tear down our own with glee and in doing so provide volumes of ammo for the opposition and b) quite frankly appalled at the way both Cruz and Trump have conducted themselves. And if I feel that way as a conservative, I can't imagine what the reaction of independent voters will be, and they in many ways are the election.
Our voters, our ideas, our policies are miles better than those of the left and the GOP elite. So why the hell can't our candidates act like it?

But they were never "our side" in the first place. That's the point. This is red pill Matrix stuff now. It was a dream world all along and keeping us dreaming was their goal, not implementing our miles better policies.

The Matrix. Life imitating Art or Art imitating Life, which was it? If you recall, there were those whose minds could not handle the awakening and those who could. All these battles and circular firing squads are merely expressions of that, nothing more. Everyone is experiencing some level of this now, including Trump supporters, but the Cruzers have a doubly big problem thanks to discoveries of his flaws in addition to the GOPe and FedGov systematic ones.

We need to get it out of our heads that Presidential elections are about a bullet list of issues and platform items. It clearly never was because if the structure and methods of a self-governing country and peoples' rights are up for election every four years then we already have lost the script, the spirit of the Declaration. That was the illusion all along. It served only to keep us battling over issues that never even touch the oval office in the first place.

Speaking of How will Independents view this conflict, well this infighting is certainly NOT why they keep voting against us, they do even when the GOPe easily gets their guy in there. The spectacle of infighting is not why the purple states went against McCain and Romney. It is related to us engaging in the blue pill myth of constructing that perfect platform that will somehow suck them in. The red pill answer is to find what we have in common and not publicize our doctrinaire agenda ( Trump ) rather than fly in guns blazing ( Cruz ). That was a presidential level decision right there that Trump instinctively understood and where Cruz demonstrated idiocy by preaching about countless non-Presidential issues as abortion, "completely repealing Obamacare", and eliminating ethanol subsidies, etc, none of which a President can do and thus are empty campaign promises to his sycophants but which kill him with the votes he needs from (I)ndependents and (D)ummycrats.

Anyway, back to the internal conflict. We now know that the GOPe is one half of a uniparty, even Rush woke up from his Rip Van Winkle snoozefest and figure it out. And this GOPe is made up of scoundrels top to bottom. Therefore the GOPe must be destroyed. This task must take precedence. Full Stop. There is no good reason to expect this task won't get uglier still. I suggest that newly awakened minds ponder just how we can go about achieving. They need to shred the doctrinaire bullet list and focus on eradicating this cancer. Ideally then the GOP gets repopulated with Constitutionalists and they will have a party not working against them.

However, even long before that day, the newly awakened freed minds still clinging to Cruz have to ask themselves if he is someone who would even consider destroying the GOPe at all, or is he amenable to being controlled by them. I think we already have that answer unfortunately. This is one of the awakenings in my mind, the possibility of which did not exist one year ago.

Finally, I don't understand the reluctance of some Cruzers to face the disappointment of their hero. It has happened with every single politician in the past, so why the hell would it be surprising for him as well? He is no more special than Gingrich, Kemp, Bush43, Dornan, Bachmann, countless "conservative" House and Senate members, and, well, everybody really. They all began as Reagan and promptly morphed into Bush41 in one way or another. It's from the institutionalized momentum of the capitol drifting leftward into compliance with an internationalist anti-pro-American new world order. That's where they intend to take us by hook or by crook. So that is the impetus for an outsider to go down there and flush that toilet.

Sorry about the long-winded reply. It is not really aimed at you at all, just venting in general to those who think this is a Trump v Cruz battle, because that's exactly how the GOPe would like it portrayed.