Rubbish.
It is a "political reality" because people like you keep looking to professional politicians for answers they don't have. The founders never envisioned any such hybrid animal as the "professional politician." They envisioned bankers, businessmen, farmers, even pastors and lawyers, taking a public responsibility to help guide and direct the nation. "Professional politicians" only became reality due to greed, power-hunger, and ego.
It is time to stop electing people who want the job. Let's elect someone who is somewhat reluctant to think so highly of themselves that they believe they have all the answers, or know other professional politicians who do and can be appointed to administrative posts. Government has gotten far too big. It must be cut back. Socioeconomic programs need to be turned over to the states for administration, bureaucracy severely curtailed, and businessmen who know the value of a dollar put in charge of them.
There is no reason the Social Security Administration, for example, should spend 60% of it's intake on administrative costs. Public-social programs should be put on the same operating basis as charities -- 90% of the funds go toward meeting the needs of those it serves, or it should immediately be reorganized.
This is just absurd. You seem to think the majority of people want and like politicians. The reality is, they hate them -- just look at public opinion polls. But since politicians are all that ever run, that's all that ever get elected. It is time for average, normal, everyday people to step up and be what the founders intended them to be -- self-governing. Campaigns need to be overhauled, curtailed, and spending limited, so the necessary message is louder than the hype, hyperbole, and outright lies.
If I had my way, no candidate could announce or even organize before May 1. We'd have national primaries in June, a runoff in July to assure someone with a majority is nominated, the general election in November as we do now, and if minority parties siphon off votes, we'd have another runoff in late November. Six months of campaigning is still too much, but it's better than three and a half years. Heck, on election night in November 2012, after it was obvious the electorate had stupidly returned Obama to office, the talking heads all started speculating about 2016! How stupid is that?!?!
As long as we think like that, you're right. But we've already limited our choices by making such a silly claim. There are lot more qualified people out there, most more qualified than any of them. But we've just eliminated them from consideration because they aren't politicians! That's also utterly stupid. We need to stop limiting our choices and return government to the people, as it was intended.
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