Much of the problem is as saddlebum noted. A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. For instance this country isn't a democracy. It's a REPUBLIC! Democracy is nothing more than organized mob rule, and that is the problem here. For the good of the people (in this case the minorities) which takes away from the successful, and gives to the slothful. i.e. DEMOCRACY! Farmers, Unions, and others, are all on the GOVERNMENT DOLE. They WILL NOT, change, so everyone needs to get over it, and accept it, or vote the gift getting, gift giving bums out, or accept your future fate, as a third world SUBJECT TO THE CROWN.
With the economy in the shape it's in, and getting worse, DEMORACY will not only rear it's ugly head, but will climb completely out of it's box, in the form of REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT. Folks are losing their jobs, their houses, that they could pay for in the first place. THEIR SATALITE TV, and the batteries for their remote need replacing, but no money for batteries. DEMOCRACY WILL LOOK PRETTY GOOD to them, as it will promise to replace all, just like when Roosevelt was thought to be saviour, but found to be the Devil instead when it came to the economy.