Reply #7: Americans are a complacent people...

[sendero]

.. most of who have correctly figured out there there is little point in voting in Federal elections any more because the country is run by banks and other large corporate interests.

Their complacency is aided and abetted by the fact that for most of them, for now, their basic needs are met.

This is rapidly devolving though, and more and more people are going to have trouble meeting their basic needs. Maybe complacency will give way to something more interesting.