I think that many people care, but feel helpless in being able to change anything. I wrote a piece a while back called It's All My Fault. It was a writing to understand myself and why I went to sleep. Through talking to many people I have found that they feel the same way. I was just like most and resorted to merely complaining about the sad state of the nation. I have become actively involved this year just to know first hand the political process. It has been mind numbing to say the least.
What I have found in the Republican party are a bunch of flag wavers that follow the party line. They only hope that they make it through without getting too hurt.
We need to elect angry people; people who will over turn tables and scream enough is enough. We need to elect people with integrity and courage.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." - John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 Address to the military
Ahh - we are definitely on the same page. We will never arrest the moral slide until we get an angry and get in people's faces so they know we are watching and will take action. I'm with you - I've not just educated myself on the process, but taken to educating others and challenging the politicians where ever and whenever I can. Hopefully others will also take up the call so they will hear from us.
Was it not also Edmund Burke that said All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing?