“True, the TEA party is attempting to steer the party to a Constitutional stance, but the R’s are still miles away.”
The real problem is that there actually is a ‘political class’. These are the leeches upon society who are doing the damage. They and the media are in an unholy alliance that feeds the narcissistic needs of each. The failure to not put strict term limits for all public offices into the constitution was an unfortunate mistake of the framers. They thought the voters would take care of that. They did not, however, foresee the power of propaganda and how this would nullify the power of the ballot.
The founders had too high of an opinion of people over time. They forgot that human beings are fallen. They believed just enough, that given a choice between “heaven or hell” people would choose “heaven”. They forgot that there is a large segment that revels in it, and those people are predominantly the ones that gravitate to power.