The candidates. They are all flawed. Underneath their public congeniality, they all have a hard edge and a ruthless ambition that has nothing to do with the public welfare or the good of the country. They want to win. Right now, that's their obsession.
It isn't necessary to like a candidate. It isn't necessary to imagine that he or she is your friend. All people have to do is make a calculated decision that this particular candidate is more likely to make a better president than the others.
Then, having cast your vote, you go about your business, because the American people have virtually no control of their government once Election Day passes. Our republican form of government gives complete power to the officeholders for their full terms. Unless you contributed big, big bucks, you aren't likely to receive any personal attention from any of them except on his or her terms.
Another point to keep in mind is that all of the problems the candidates are now promising to solve-- are problems they themselves created.
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We have been saddled with a government that pays lip service to the nation’s freedom principles while working overtime to shred the Constitution.
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