You are unfortunately correct. The problem is the large and increasing number of utter fools inhabiting our country. There are so many people now who when confronted with a question that requires rational thought will simply say, "I don't care, I don't pay attention to that stuff." They know absolutely nothing of substance or value, yet they will go vote for someone for the most inane, self-centered reasons.
These people are suffering from the "normalcy bias." They wrongly believe that their lives will somehow go on as normal despite their stupid voting decisions, despite their liberal "compassionate" social views, despite importing millions of third worlders, etc. To put it mildly, they would be mistaken.
This is why nothing short of CWII will ever resolve the problem. The people have simply become too stupid and self-absorbed to govern themselves. They have thusly become the perfect breeding ground for a wanna-be dictator like Obama. He offers them government for the lazy - just leave all of those hard decisions, the ones that involve actual thinking, to him. Enjoy your life, become a pot-smoking, homo-sex indulging hedonist and leave the hard stuff to the great and wise Obama. An as an added bonus, you get to enjoy a smug self-satisfaction that you elected and continue to support the "first black president."
There is no hope absent a purge.