and so were Obama's. He was a narrowly focused activist trained in the art of giving little people bigger voices. That's not necessarily a bad quality but it's not a quality I consider appropriate for leadership of a large nation of diverse thoughts and objectives. I also don't know why the Democrats put all of their eggs into one basket. I have an idea about this but I'd not want to state it as fact. We do, IMO, have two very dysfunctional political parties who have been trading places and doing little more than fighting with one another using the public media as their weapon of choice. The public media has not, however, been fair in how they distribute the ordnance they are given. This leaves too many citizens in virtual darkness. They become frustrated, angry and unable to reason. We're like a bunch of bobbleheads in front of our TVs tuned to the station of our choice and with no idea that the picture is much larger than it appears. I say it's time to end the monopoly these two parties use as a stranglehold on our form of democracy. Drain the swamp, as it were.