'and on the national level, non-career politician, the best example, is what we get- Trump!
no experience, in deep do-do..what a mess.'
This is a point well taken but I would offer another thought: if Donald Trump was not a complete, absolute and total disaster, he would easily beat Hillary Clinton, who brings LOTS of baggage as a career politician. In fact, I would hazard to say that ANY of the other Republican candidates would have beaten Hillary. While I think a lot of her baggage is 'trumped up', we can only be grateful that the Donald is who he is and trounced the other GOP candidates.