text: No, it's not the best government can do.  It's the best the Dems and Repubs will do, because instead of taking care of the troops and citizens, they pour the money into wars for profit and wall street.  And the blame lays squarely on the shoulders of the big party voters.
  
  In a voting republic, the masses get the punishment they deserve.  Problem is the rest of us have to suffer, too.