>>That makes sense but it's not what I'm seeing.
>>Even on state and local levels partisan squabbles get more focus than serious programs.
>>My local buddies spend more time talking about who insulted whom than the condition of our roads (awful)
IMHO the MSM's ratings slide, particularly CNN's, show that people are turning off all the ranting. They'd rather not hear it. Maybe your buddies would feel the same way if a Walter Cronkite lookalike popped up with an alternative news channel dedicated to fixing the problem, not only ever the blame.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
