[frankiep]

My guess would be selfishness with a healthy dose of materialism and a side order of ignorance of history.

[enough_idiocy]

I believe that selfishness and materialism have been coded into our culture specifically so these powers could take control. It was all part of the master plan in the 1960s. It worked. They destroyed our value system, take control of the influencing mouth pieces (schools/media), and dumbed down and preoccupied the citizens with nonesense. Mark my words, this country is headed for the Idiocracy as depicted in the Hollyweird movie of the same name. My only hope is that I can find a state to move to that is willing to adhere to the constitution and our founding principles. I don't know of any right now, but I suspect that when things finally hit rock bottom a movement of like minded people will arise and people will migrate somewhere and start fresh.