--excellent--unfortunately, it starts at the local level with at least 45% (or more) of the population wanting "government" to fix everything.
"government" can fix anything except what it broke. Are you broke yet?
In addition to so many people expecting that the government should fix things, we also have a growing trend of people thinking that they have a right to never be offended. If someone references a religion you don't believe in, you can claim to be offended and threated to sue. If someone hangs a picture of a politician you didn't vote for, you claim to be offended and demand they remove it. It goes on and on--people assume they have some protection against ever being offended and that if anything happens to offend them, it's got to be something they can sue over. It's ridiculous.
Yep, wanting government to "fix" things that "aren't right" sure does cause a lot of trouble. Stealing other people's money to do good things almost never produces good things in the long run. But there are myriad posters here that think that we should have the federal government intervene in all sorts of situations just because it would be the right thing to do. Not the Constitutional one, mind you, but the "right thing to do."