I don't see how you can say the future government sucks unless you have something personally against every single candidate that's running. But yes, the current government sucks. And people vote depending on the stance of the candidates on issues that they care about. If your theory of 'who wasn't so recent' was right, nobody would ever get re-elected.

I'm at work right now. And shouldn't be obsessively answering comments, probably, but politics counts as UN business, technically. And the future of the US does matter to me, which is why I am going to be talking about a lot in my journal -- there's no use just complaining about something, you have to take action to change it.

You only lose if you give up. America is not yet lost.