Re:not broken (Score 2, Insightful)

Only one thing will fix our broken democracy at this point -- revolution.

What makes you think it's broken? Just because the results aren't exactly what you like, doesn't mean that the system is horribly broken.

Actually the system is broken because we, the people, let it get broken. (In truth, our parents/grandparents started letting it break around 50 years ago).

Who was it that said (I paraphrase) " a democracy is doomed as soon as the people discover that they can vote themselves stuff out of the public treasury".

The people with the money call the shots. They are our new aristocracy. We the voters are only needed to get them into and keep them in power. "Bread and circuses" works as well today as it has in the past.

The hope with Obama was the his campaign was primarily funded by individual donors and therefor he would be less indebted to this aristocracy. The real proof is in who he chooses to surround himself with.

There are really only 2 ways to salvage the system:

A- Revolution
or
B- Enough people taking personal and civic responsibility (aka casting off their laziness and desire to simply be entertained) to make meaningful changes starting at the local levels.

The problem really can't be fixed from the top, no matter how much people may think Obama can do it. He could make the change easier though by surrounding himself with people who themselves are not beholden to the money.