Obama won

[JWFITZ]

I would agree, corruption and ignorance in the general population which allows corruption to go more or less uncontested. Consider the current race--how could one with the backdrop of a collapse of the banking system run one of the Keeting 5 as a contending canditate? Especially one with a son involved in the banking system that deep-sixed the bank he ran in July--and got out handsomely-- and it wasn't even newsworthy. You can only do so because people are in general as dumb as a box of rocks and are more than willing to stay that way.

But poverty breeds ignorance, and capitalizing on ignorance has become the primary tool to win elections. How optimistic am I? I am, actually, but don't believe government will be relevant much further in the future.