Your home page says you are from Texas, start acting like it.
You first, you want it, quit clicking away on a keyboard and do something.
I do not have delusions that 90% of our citizens are not just waiting for the next episode of American Idol. Do you honestly think that if, even several hundred thousand people stood up tomorrow and said enough is enough and marched on DC, the other 290 million people would cheer them on?
It will take several generations before we would get back to the ideal point you describe where people act like they are worthy of the Republic they live in. It is a sad reality, but it is reality.