occasionally, the system fucks-up or through mere chance a good person DOES manage to break-through the crap.

And, in half of these instances, that successful candidate who eventually becomes president is then roundly criticized by all and generally repudiated later by his party. With our collective psychological debilities it is amazing we have managed to create societies as complex and long live as we have.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."