I don't understand how there isn't a single candidate banging hard at the drum of what it really means to be a lean mean american to put people back on track from their own sense of what's Right, rather than appealing to mindless masses of feel good lemmings by harping on about some promised-land "change" and promising more big government.
Like egging a bull on vs. riding a donkey with a carrot hanging in its face. Nothing good is going to happen or "change", so long as people expect the govt to do things for them, rather than them working for themselves and in effect rise the country. In fact, the more people are left to being soft-arsed and uneducated (education doesn't have to be elite.. it just has to be thorough) and hungry only for "help" to "change", etc, and the more govt is made to cater to that sort of mediocre expectations, the more it's going to keep getting more and more stuck in mud.
There can't be any compromise.