Ignorant citizenry, Ignorant political class, Ignorant reactionaries, Ignorant conservatives, Ignorant liberals, ignorant progressives.
Ignorant children, ignorant adults.
Ignorant Reagan, Ignorant Bush, Ignorant Quayle, Ignorant Clinton, Ignorant Reid, Ignorant Pelosi.
Worse than useless Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain.
What is it that people expect this electoral process to produce?
I'm active locally where you can have some impact, but beyond that, the lack of knowledge and understanding cannot be overcome , even in our perpetual "campaign season".
Please note: I did not say or mean stupid. Ignorant means uninformed- mainly because most Americans don't want to citizens of a democracy -too hard, too much effort.
Use it or lose it. And we've pretty much lost it.

O needs to announce his VP choice and stop this tease that is doing nothing positive for him.

I vehemently disagree that anyone can win the presidency on a platform advocating tax increases on anyone other than the super-super-rich (wealthiest 1% or so). Especially during a recession and a home foreclosure crisis like what we have now.

Otherwise, I agree on the need for drastic economic reform and the need to spend tax dollars wisely on infrastructure investments. I agree on the need to reduce healthcare costs and expand access. Of course, there's one obvious way that you could cut everyone's taxes and still have gobs of revenue to invest in such things. All you would need to do would be to cut a fraction of a percent of the wasteful defense budget. You could cut it even by a few percentage points, and the U.S. would still have all the weapons it needs and more, as well as a larger military budget than the entire rest of the world combined. However, I'll believe that when I see it.

Political feasibility trumps all, and the type of radical reform that you advocate, and that I too would like to see implemented, needs to be sold to the American people first, before a presidential candidate can run on that platform and not lose.

You make some very good points, but at my age (52) if I hear that "this may be our last chance" line again... I'd love to see a social democratic government, followed by a thousand year world-wide reggae party, but I believe you are living in a fatalistic fantasy world. As Bob Dylan said

Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head;
This world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid.

It's a big old goofy world out there, filled to the brim with all sorts of scary, as well as happy, surprises. Wishing so won't make it happen, and neither will fatalism.

JUST RELEASED - OBAMA IS UP 3 POINTS IN TODAY'S FOX NEWS.COM POLL -
PEOPLE POLLED ARE "REGISTERED VOTERS" . 42 TO 39