Coelho, excellent thread! I got linked over from the shit going down 2012 thread...

The problem is stupidity combined with stubbornness. People can be so friggin dumb. Proof: George W. Bush is the most powerful person in the world, and he was democratically elected.

But I guess what it all boils down to is an unwillingness by most people to see the world as it is, rather than how they want to believe it is. And that, I believe, is the problem of our times.
While I agree that the problem in America is the sad fact that the ignoramus far outnumber the educated, I do not believe Bushy to have been elected democratically due to not only the corrupt and undemocratic nature of the electoral college, but also the fact that Bushy took his opponent to the supreme court in order to make sure Florida could not have a recount (where conveniently, Bushy's little bro is governor) and this was thus the first election that the supreme court ever ruled on, as it is not their jurisdiction anyway.