I quite like Kinky Friedman's take on the state of US politics. In fact I have enjoyed his opinion of a lot of things
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-0...94?pfmredir=sm
There is one glimmer of hope in one part of his views.
Where he says that once thrown into the deep end of high office, even people like Churchill became great leaders in the end, when the time before
coming to office they were not exactly perfect human beings.