If it were, voting someone new in would change things. However, the problem is systemic throughout the world. It's Globalization which basically means an almost infinite amount of exchange of information, ideas, billions in money passing through almost all borders electronically, etc. This amount of real change disempowers all nations, not just ours. Even China and India in their own ways as nations are being disempowered by Globalization. Most people there just don't see it yet because their labor forces are better positioned because of lower wages than ours. But the early signs are there, like suicides of workers with no real rights at the Foxcomm plant in China.
Do you really think a 27% decrease in home sales in the U.S. has anything at all to do with who is in office? It has actually zero to do with that. And that is why it is so frustrating for Americans and patriots of every nation on earth right now. The Corporate Fascists have won without a fight because most of the world had no idea this is what could or would actually happen.
Do you remember why the Early Americans went to war? It was "No taxation without representation". Well, it's the same thing again. Only this time it is the whole world. We have only 300 million or so people. But the election to have meaning or teeth would have to include the whole world 7 billion at this point. Otherwise, elections are useless everywhere in bringing prosperity back.
The problem is the corrupt world economic system and the corrupt U.S. economic system. It has nothing at all to do with U.S. politics really. It's the world economic system that has failed us!
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