So....care to proffer an explanation as to why the lunatics are running the asylum?
Must I? lol
I suppose there are a lot of reasons. They basically boil down to apathy which manifests in a multitude of ways. We the people have never truly assumed our responsibilities as the caretakers of liberty and thus others have accumlated control and power.
The founding father's gave us a remarkable system but not one person had ever lived under anything like it. Too many people IMO thought (and still think) that once the War of Independence was over and the ink on the Constitution was dry that freedom and liberty were a done deal. The FFs tried to warn us about that. Reagan said it much more recently, and eloquently, "America is a work in progress." I suspect few really pondered how deep that statement really is.