Yeah Tim, I was being ironic in my last sentence and unfortunately quite serious. We have a rather unstable president who's being pushed on all sides, in order to save his own skin,  to get tough with a country that together with our own can, at a minimum, annihilate a good portion of the "civilized" world inside of an hour. No other issue is remotely comparable in magnitude, we're in very dangerous waters. The Middle East is set to explode in a nightmare scenario, that could kick off WWIII. Most of the country is simply oblivious to this stark reality. The "Doomsday Clock" isn't set at 2 1/2 minutes to midnight(you'd have to go back to the 1950's for comparable setting) for nothing.

There is no credible leadership, and there is no sizable, constructive movement to lead.