They literally don't have any good candidates because it takes one or more of these to be at the top:

1. Already having power

2. Extreme wealth

3. Extreme corruption

The system is broken, and the ones in power won't allow it to ever be fixed because it benefits them for it to stay broken.

> They literally don't have any good candidates because it takes one of these to get to the top:

> 1. Extreme wealth

> 2. Extreme corruption

> 3. All of the above

OK. So which of those categories did Obama fall into?

I think yours is an over-cynical take that is in fact wrong.

> The system is broken, and the ones in power won't allow it to ever be fixed because it benefits them for it to stay broken.

The system is broken, but not in the way you describe. The partisan rank-and-file demand candidates that represent the partisan faithful, not an actual majority of the country [1]. They strongly prefer zealous evangelism fantasies and judgement over representation. It's stupid and foolish, and it's how we've gotten were were are. And a lot of Democrats have responded to Trump by getting worse, instead taking a reality check and snapping out of it.

[1] And I'm not talking about some milquetoast centrism.