The problem is you have 50% of the voting population actually voting in national elections, and that is on a close race. One quarter vote in state elections or in a mid-term year and you have even less in local elections. We have a 94% incumbancy rate which voters tend to forgive all to often their leaders of their political idealogy while giving no quarter to the opposite political idealogy, in most cases. We have allowed this because of us and no one else is to blame.