The people in charge today are the teenagers and early 20's kids of the sixties. By far this is the most narcissitic generation on record, and if the recent votes in Seattle and San Francisco don't bear this out, nothing does. This is not getting fixed anytime soon, by anyone.
Tom McClintock wrote a piece that was posted here about the California Special Election that nailed it on the head.
Typical French attitude towards everyone except terrorists:
"I fart in your general direction!"
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
Do you happen to have a link?