Reply #7: I generally agree with your statement. This is pretty much what I see

[TheKentuckian]

For some folks all was pretty much well until Junior Bush came on the scene and for others he was the end result of a dangerously captured and complicit system.

Change for some is peaches and cream at "not Bush" and for others it can only mean a change from the paradigm started by Nixon and locked in by Reagan.

If trickle down, crony capitalism, misuse of natural resources, and empire are some examples of your idea of the root causes of our problems rather than recent mismanagement then there has been little if any observable change nor is such a thing on the horizon.

I also think some people may agree on the areas of concern but not their scope or the time remaining to rectify them.
If you believe there is a finite amount of time to make an impact on conditions then calls for patience and baby steps ring very hollow. There's no sense in devoting energy, blood, sweat, and tears toward a goal you have no honest inclination of addressing in the time frame before it becomes unsolvable and if it may become unsolvable then there is no case that delay can be tolerated.