Of course "accepting responsibility" is a trait that seems to have vanished from out culture. It is much easier to blame someone or something else for all that is wrong in our lives.
Both Alexis de Tocqueville and Benjamin Franklin opined about the end of the Republic.
Re “someone at fault”... why isn’t it us?
My comment on that is that to accept responsibility, you have to have knowledge. How many of us truly know what the candidates proposed on the election ticket really stand for, other than their party affilication? Oh, maybe at the top of the ticket we’ve watched some ads and even heard a debate, but much of our government, although elected, is essentially anonymous.
There’s a certain inertia to government. Pre-existing officials and employees last a long time. That’s why the Cultural Marxism movement is both pernicious and effective. It’s a cultural movement, only partially structured. Election Day creeps up, and most votes (including my own) are on the basis of very minimal information or party affiliation, down-ticket.
Every once in a while, some elected official is in the position to do something that has lasting beneficial or deleterious effects. I’d say that loading up Minneapolis, or for that matter Augusta and Lewiston (in Maine) with Somalis was one of those lasting bad acts. Whether it was supposedly altruistic (the best I can say for GWBush), or devilishly, Islamically supporting clever (Blame Obama), I can’t say for sure. But, if it hadn’t happened at all, those locations would be significantly better off!