>>>I dont think it's a common view but regardless of whether that is so or not, one must view things as they are. Policiticans have no interest in anything but getting elected and will say anything to pander to votes. Once we understand this then perhaps we can start thinking of getting somewhere.
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>>>>perhaps we can start thinking of getting somewhere.
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>>Where will that get you?
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>>Winston Churchill (another politician who worried about getting elected) once said that democracy is the worst political system- except for all the others.
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>>Lincoln, FDR, Churchill et al were all, at the end of the day, machine politicians who did whatever they had to do to get elected.
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>... and so what does that tell us?

I thought that it's pretty obvious, but I'll say it:
Knowing what is wrong can be useful, but that knowing what to do about it- and how to make that happen- is a rare and valuable skill.
Lots of people could recite litanies of what was wrong when these 3 people came on the scene, but instead of dwelling on how bad things were they did things. Some of them worked. Some didn't.
But in the end, the world was a better place because of what they did, however flawed -or even corrupt- they might have been.

Doing something positive- however misguided it might be- is usually better than complaining about bad things are.

Voltaire said it well:

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.