My vote is for infinite distraction. Government is taking advantage of this right now. They can already do basically whatever they want without that much blowback.
Another problem in US besides a lot of people not being educated on the issues and not caring about them, is the feeding of bad information through the corrupt media. With today's media, it's almost too easy to get most people in the country to think a certain country is the enemy and needs to be destroyed, at whatever cost. Thanks to the same media, it's also pretty easy to pass bad laws, too, either because the media is not covering them, or lies about them.
