Actually, big business DOES give a lot of money to the government--so that their favorite politicians are re-elected.
Dubya is stumbling. The one thing that bothered me about Clinton is that he could have been the one to sign off on scrapping missile defense. As far as the Kyoto Protocol, he probably would have said something in a manner that would have soothed the masses all over.
But...Clinton is off to a life of golf and government checks. During the first 3 or 4 months, Bush showed himself to be competent. He has earned the respect of world leaders. He showed that he DOES has some edumacation. But I don't think he is in ANY position to push a conservative-based agenda. If anything, he has to play a more centrist agenda than Clinton. There appear to be some quality candidates out on the horizon, and I think it will be hard for Bush just to win his own party's nod in 2004. We'll see...
More and more people are going to college, learning more about the world around them. Many of these folks do not have quite the same value system as their parents. Furthermore, the minorities are growing, and tend to lean liberal-to-centrist. Therefore, I can only hope that there will be more liberals in our world over the next 20 years. (Although, looking back at the past, it would seem that it goes in cycles.)