[galdosdi]

While I'm at it, the very attitude of "that's not my problem" reveals your foreignness (or if you are from here and very young, perhaps the sad fact that civic culture is dying everywhere but maybe new england)

America has or has traditionally had a strong culture of self determination and citizen involvement in and ownership of politics and government policy.

Another word for this is democracy. Real, genuine, messy democracy. America is not a service provider to you. It is a union or coop you are a part of.

You are not a customer of your country. You are a member. A shareholder.

This attitude is I know very foreign to many people who come from elsewhere and only know authoritarian states or democracies in name only. Or very young people who have caught on that civic culture is dying in most of America.

But it's fundamentally diametrically opposed to what this country has always been intended to be at its best. it is very very much your problem