Politics- Is there anybody out there?

I love politics. I am definitely a political junkie. My grandfather was big with local politics in Hopewell and I still remember him getting local poll number results called in to him as a child. This was the 60's-a little different that the ways of today. He was a lifelong Democrat and really believed in it's values. At my age back then, if he was a Democrat, then so was I.
Flash forward to today and I have no political affiliation. I'm part of that big lumped together independent group that both the Democrats and Republicans are so frantically trying to persuade to win their next election. My current leanings are more conservative than liberal. My basic premise is that you are responsible for yourself. Acknowledging that there are circumstances that can devastate people's lives, government intervention can be a limited option. However, the government's money is my money. I do have a problem with me giving my money to government and then they decide how to spend it.
Currently they talk about the debt ceiling in numbers that I can't fathom personally but the politicians throw out as if they are an every day number. Truthfully, I don't think the politicians can fathom the numbers. If they could, there'd be no call to raise the debt ceiling. Banks decide whether I'm going to get more credit. They base it upon my income, my credit rating, etc. If my financial scoresheet looked like the government's, they'd be calling my debts due immediately. It is so much more fun and irresponsible spending other people's money.
I look on the political landscape and try to find somebody that I think could provide real leadership and direction for our country. I keep drawing blanks. I see polished bubble heads who have scripted their thoughts so carefully that they sound artificial. I do love the fact that Donald Trump was involved for a while. He was refreshing regardless of how pompous he is. When he talked, you always heard the Donald, not political handlers scripting the verbiage. He would've made a bad choice to be president because I believe his ego would have always come first.
Obama is in the same boat. He is driven by ego. I acknowledge that you must have self confidence to tackle the enormity of the job, but do it without it being so evident every time you appear before the cameras. Obama is a professional politician. His background suggests that when he was asked as a child "What do you want to be when you grow up Barack?" he answered politician as if it an occupation.
Every politician has the answers to all our problems. They spend more time debating them than really solving them. Depending on whether you are from the left or the right, the solution can be polar opposites. Consensus, compromise, meeting in the middle-what a bunch of hogwash. The party in power gets their way-period. Lately however, the Democrats or Republicans cant even agree within their own parties. What's that word they use with "cluster" sounds like buck.
Yet, with this new level of incompetence, you, me, the country will survive. It's almost as if it doesn't matter what the politicians do, wait till next election cycle and will get a new set of professional politicians.
I guess I love politics because their is so much drama. Being male, I can't suppose to watch soaps but I can watch the soap opera that is our government. God bless these United States.
Keith