UNINTERESTED, UNINFORMED, AND UNINVOLVED

When an electorate becomes uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved in their government, what happens?
What happens is that selfish, conceited, and irresponsible people are elected to run the government. The government flounders, short term decisions are made, the people suffer, but the selfish, the conceited, and the irresponsible become wealthy and grave power for their own egos. This is how societies, how nations, collapse. The above is an accurate description of the United States.
Our Congress, our executive, and our bureaucracy are a true representation of the American People. They are uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved. The law requires the executive to submit a budget and national security plan to congress by February 5th of each year. It has not been done.
Congress is supposed to pass a budget for each year. It has not been done for many years. The standard course has become continuing resolutions. Again, we are facing a so-called government shutdown because of the failure of our elected representatives to do their jobs. This is the headline, “Law-makers race to avoid looming shutdown as blame game begins.”
This is now our standard mode of operation. The American people cannot blame the congress or the executive for this headline. We the American people must blame ourselves. We became uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved. We elected representatives who made irresponsible promises and selfish people elected them.
To correct our situation will require a painful change. Argentina made that choice. They are turning the corner to having a responsible government, but there is a cost. The people of Argentina have chosen to correct the problems they caused. Do we Americans have the same sense and fortitude the Argentina people have. I hope so.