It isn't that there is something wrong with most Americans, Ebbie...

It is that your $y$tem is run by 2 completely phony controlled political parties who represent no one but the huge monetary players who fund them...and the same players fund both of those parties.

They provide 2 figureheads, 2 flunkies for you to choose between every 4 years. They try and find 2 that seem at least...vaguely plausible as real candidates. (hopefully) Don't be surprised when the choice you make does not end up addressing the real concerns you had when you made the choice! You have just all been suckered once again, that's all.

It takes a huge amount of money to run a presidential campaign or a congressional campaign and get elected. Where do you think that money comes from? Very little of it comes from the ordinary voters. It comes from lobbyists for the major corporations and the major banks. It comes from international drug money and international blood money. It comes from the kingpins of the military-industrial complex.

You also have a controlled media which is essentially a vast marketing and propagandizing and entertainment $y$tem meant to keep you lulled into a stupor of "normality" (conformity), and fearful enough to buy into the next war or the next demolition of your traditional social programs and civil rights.

You CANNOT have genuine elections which elect genuinely representative and responsive politicians in such a $yStem...unless a radical one slips through the cracks somehow by what would amount to a virtual full-blown miracle at this point.

That is the sorry but sad truth. Americans do not live in a democracy. They live in a controlled oligarchy. So do the citizens of virtually ever other so-called democracy nowadays, but it's worse in the USA than in many other such nations at this time.

Most of the world now watches this spectacle with the same sense of forboding with which they watched Nazi Germany in the late 30's. I kid you not. The USA is the most feared country on the face of the Earth.