Governmental incompetence. when everything is just in a place where we don t really know where to even start with fixing issues and the problems that we see. part of this is because of our expectation that the federal government will come in and do everything, they can be everything to all people. the republican party used to be to say well, we want to push some of this power down. we think local administration is going to be more effective, to answer the some of these questions. the democratic party used to be the one that started with a goal in mind and work backwards on means. then you have a republican party who looks at democrats who have seized institutions and they say instead of saying we should have those institutions be partisan, fine, we expect them to be partisan, meanwhile the democrats are taking that approach where they start with the rhetoric and they work backwards to the legislation. so we have two aimless parties. frankly, the way we get out of ....