Need & self-sabotage

To blame voters for the deep do-do we're in is absurd. Might as well blame consumers for the deluge of bad, misleading products on offer now. Sure some shop &/or vote better than others, but who's to blame for the housing crisis? Certainly not the general public, regardless of how misled they have been, led being the key term. Socieies have famously overthrown tyrants: the royal "abdolutism" of James I (of Bible fame) led to Oliver Cromwell. Russia, China, France, Haiti, most of "Latin" America and even the USA have all had revolutions, for what they were worth. People tried to check oligarchs through unions but ended up hosting two blood-sucking parasites instead of just one (oh me; I forgot the Church. Make that a Holy Trinity). We need a better re-set button; we had the Courts, but let corrupt political parties appoint the judges. We had a co-op movement but got seduced by paid employees. Other countries have recall mechanisms and often still maintain "cottage industry" - and the US, if it wants to survive, should too. But desire, perhaps even need, to self-sabotage is difficult to overcome.