The future of politics will be solved by mere elite-handled deals. Short hand movements and gentle smiles. It appears clear that political actors know not how to engage in real crisis. The ruling party in Spain lost today their seat in the presidential chair and just because the abused their mediatic power, but ruled by fear, tried by these means to manipulate the masses. In the Bush ejample, his administration had more time but was unable to satisfy the international opinion, this way running a belic campaign tha would result in two countries sieged and taken, and the most of the population in the world to continue to grow in anger. As Baudrillard says "That we have dreamt this event [11 of september, 2001], that everybody without exception had dreamt it, given the fact that nobody can not dream the destruction of any power that becomes hegemonic until that point, this is unacceptable for the Western moral counciousness, and yet it's a fact, the measure of this is stablished by the pathetic violence of all the discourses that crave with errasing it." (Power Inferno) Even though he is a radical thinker of this age, he names something right we he points out, the tension between, existing hegemonic power and the desire of it's death. Specially when the power is rubbed to your memories as in the take overs of Afghanistan and Iraq.
This neuralgic irracionality of power centres is why i have the nerve to postulate that corruption is the future of politics. Media is attending to one human desire of trasparency, but that wish has forgotten that in regards to human relations (politics, love, less but still friendship, among other types) mantaining power has a primal role to play in the menu of interests. We want to be. In this sense Media is not attending but in an ideal mode to the needs of human existence.
This writting does'nt want to be taken as an apology of corruption, but a mere analysys and profetic writting.
Politicians have, for mileniums, dealt with problems in a very intimate form; of course this lead to hi-powered leaders that tended to abuse their power and in some cases those leaders have remained in History as lunatics (ej. Neon). But the whole issue is that fuctionality will drag politics, each day more, to a corrupted entity of resolution. I agree with Churchill in his characterisation of democracy (Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.) in the sense that the distribution of power , juditial, executive and legislative, is wise for it breakes the exsecive holding of power. Still some things cannot be setled by reason. Sadly i watch politics of a lot of countries be beaten by their own desires (Putin and his repeated cases of corruption within the riches Russinas, Bush with the Enron Scandale that makes obvious his below water negociations, Berlusconi and his media takeover, Fox, mexican president, and his electoral campaign financial doubts, Menen in Argentina as a totally corrupted, once convicted, presidential candidate again, etc.).

Politics are crucial instruments in a liberal modern life, nevertheless the lie in a swamp, the odors of human egoism can be smelled.