Electoral ponderings

I keep wondering if America would go back to her roots and rediscover our creative and innovative cultural whether we'd be further along rather than falling behind. We keep focusing on band-aids rather than creating new ways of doing things. As Einstein said, "we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." When we will start looking at root problems rather than delaying a bigger mess? If we look to create new energy sources rather than drilling for new ones would we be able to help more people in the future like we did when we mastered farming and fed the world ? If we looked at why health care costs so much rather than trying to insure everyone, would the un-insured no longer have a problem? Have we forgotten that we are all immigrants to America ? How can we incorporate in immigrants in a dignified manner befitting our past? I am hopeful that as a nation we'll find the strength to face our hard questions and create new paths of thinking to help not only ourselves but the rest of the world.