The rest of the world has often viewed American politics with disbelief. How can a country that claims to be progressive be so very backward in key issues. America seems to have become an inventor of mistakes, no, an innovator, which is more dangerous. It's not that America does not have great ideas, but that a democracy as large as America is doomed to fail in common sense if there is a large sector of companies that have non-democratic agendas, but non of the prevalent common sense.
In America, it's not the people who govern but moneyed interests and large business interests. Such people are interested in themselves. The mistake is to see America as any different from a chaotic result of mathematics at play where random results are not likely to occur so long as the machinery of politics favors those with money and influence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/24/obama-never-room-for-radical-change?intcmp=239
Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.
