It’s a flawed binary system used by widely diverse voters such that every election is a Hobson’s choice for most voters. No level of attention would stop this.We being all of those who were busy working/providing for and raising family's and not paying enough attention. This has been coming for a long time.
The lever pullers. Voting the straight party ticket regardless.
The deniers.
The list goes on and on and on.
Example: Trump orders AG to make bump sticks illegal. Whaddya gonna do? Vote for a bat**** crazy Democrat? No. Even if you’re not a straight ticket voter, even if you pay the strictest attention, even if you admit all that’s happening and all the faults of all the candidates, at the end of all that, you effectively have just one of two levers to pull, the one which most encapsulates every aspect of the fullness of all your political desires.
The president is a pompus ass, cad, scoundrel, habitual liar, womanizer, cheating pornstar ****er, potential gun banner, authoritarian, just about everything I hate in a candidate. But ***damn it. Who am Ingoing to vote for? A pedophile protecting, race baiting, communist loving, lying, cheating, cocksucking, native pretending, tax-n-spendy, lying sack of **** Democrat? No. I’m stuck with the pornstar ****er.
Ain’t no amount of awareness will win America back to what it was envisioned to be when you have choices for leaders like what we have. So no. Not “our” fault. Your guilt is dissolved. You are blameless in this mess. You’re only to blame if you wanted more of any of the bad ****.
Disclaimer: none of the above should be construed to endorse apathy. Though not much less effective than the system we have, at least the pornstar ****er is an overall better outcome than the embodiment of Stalin sleeping in the Whitehouse.