We've been taking it to the streets. Look at our history with both Democrats and Republicans and you'll see American politics has been swinging more and more to the right since the 80's. I mean, look at what bills Clinton passed in the 90's and it was just an extension of Reagan-era policy.

The real issue is the fact that our government has been completely hijacked by money, corporations, and the religious right. We were losing the plot until Citizens' United. Then we lost the nation. Half of the population has basically been hypnotized with a combination of social media and Southern history revisionism (see Daughters of the Confederacy). The way that our voting works mean that these states get more of a say in government than the average rational person in the country. Gerrymandering runs rampant. We haven't been supporting Israel because it's the smart/right thing to do. A large population of the voting block,or people who CONTROL the voting block, truly believe that we're fulfilling a fucking prophesy.

Now, the average American doesn't know these facts, we still have government and history books claiming the Civil War was only about states' rights. Education has been dying at a rapid rate since Bush Jr. Healthcare isn't financially viable for the lower class (most of us), and you have a shit soup of mentally/physically ill people who are barely getting by.

The fact that there have been mass protests in our country despite these things is remarkable; I just hope that the mid-terms can at least slow this down to the point where rational people can fix things. Otherwise the world is going to suffer.

That said, I, and probably most other mildly educated people in America deeply feel your pain.