Well I can't answer all your questions but I have the theory on the one above.
Some human beings are just cowards. This is all I can figure and they are born that way and that's the way it is.
These human beings take the position that they are going to live their lives and if they die, well they die. Unfortunately most often the danger affects the many who want to live as our most basic nature demands. Every animal alive wants to live and they fight to live and it's normal and it involves the continuation of the species and life as created by Somebody, but it's instinctual and we get this out here in la-la land, we who carry the country on our backs.
Only one thing to do....pull these cowards along with us to life because we can't go killing people because they are cowards. We can only form a concensus, load these human rocks on our backs and tug them along.
For too long we've had a political party in power that had the coward voting block on their side and well...we know how that works out. Cowards don't recognize evil when it spits on them because to recognize evil means they might have to something good, fight to live, something they don't want to do.
The will to live and to create a world that our progeny will enjoy and prosper is common across the biological spectrum. Cowards of course don't want to recognize such oddness but I think they are not the norm.
Patience...yeah I know. But this country's political system is not created for expediency in social and legal change. In the long run this is a good thing. Right now we need to keep leaders in charge that we trust will do what it takes and tentatively I suggest that we do.