If you look at national polls on the issues 60-80% of Americans would agree with every single thing you wrote.

Unfortunately, our education system has failed to teach children to think rationally and the 4th Estate has betrayed its founding principles to hold politicians feet to the fire.

We are left with a population that can't connect the dots together to reach these conclusions, distracted by a news-as-entertainment profit center that distracts the public with car chases and sex scandals.