Well of course its about money, money and power, peanut butter and jelly, Laverne and Shirley... you can't hardly separate them, even our PBS "newshour" which is s'pose to be beyond its tainting is about getting the money.
I believe the biggest factor to our crumbling democracy is the indoctrinated on both sides of the spectrum.....
A great example of how it works:
B-2 wanted to raise the debt ceiling to meet all our gubermints obligations (real or imagined) and all his party faithful had not one single concern about wishing him his desires as such.
On the other-hand, Obama laid out a sound and just argument for NOT raising it, and many of that party faithful agreed.
The present...... talk about a flip flop, 180 degrees, and yet these "party faithful" see nothing odd or disparaging in this reasoning.
And the media never calls on those folk to explain the discrepancies other than a wee bit of lip service, and that is only to cover their azzes instead of engaging in real journalistic integrity...
Basket.... meet Hell