your wealth makes you complacent

our country is still sinking into corruption and disgrace. we have a government intent on wrecking its human rights record, violating every freedom and right known to man, and pretty much establishing itself as a dictatorship. when the tanks roll in 2008 to enforce marshal law and keep bush in power, don't be surprised. the blame for all of this falls on the apathetic voters who simply don't care that their politicians have created a separate world for themselves and are out of touch with most of the country. in the name of retaining power they have reworked constituencies so that incumbents remain in power and challengers rarely make headway against vested interests. this allows, even forces, our so-called representatives to pander to the fringe groups of their support base, because those are the ones who care enough to vote. the more they do this, the less the mainstream voters feel connected to their politicans, and thus the less they vote, reinforcing the cycle. we live in a declining america rife with corruption and political malfeasance. we are still capable of changing this, but no one seems to care enough to try. democratic representation is dying in america, because no one is left to fight for it.