Now first of all, I understand completely why some people would not approve of my posting this on a site that is clearly labeled "video games" but all the same I consider people who play video games a lot to be my kind of people and sometimes I like to share my views with them. 
 
Now about why this country is fucked up...
The main problem I believe is the media. The current state of the media with regards to politics very much resembles that of people who cover celebrities. The main similarity is that news media worships ratings and the stories that receive the highest ratings are usually plainly based around scandals. You might say that they also debate the issues, but every turn of the debate is incentivized by the media to be overblown and over emotional. Let's face it what gets more views when someone says "I agree with your goal sir, but I think we should go about it slightly differently" or "Republicans(could be democrats too) hate America!!!". It's like the entire concept of being reasonable in politics has been labeled poisonous by the media. 
 
As a result of this the media has rejected discussion regarding important issues to america that are either too complicated or not interesting enough for most people to stick around to watch. One example of this is the trade deficit. We currently sell other countries over 800 billion dollars less than we buy from other countries, unfortunately it happened to us slowly enough that eventually, now, we have an economy mainly based on importing and selling be it shipping or selling in retail. Careers like marketing and management have shot up while engineering and manufacturing have faltered. We've taken out debt to continue to buy things to allow our newly created retail economy to continue to grow, taking out massive mortgages on all our properties. The problem is this mountain of debt had to fall eventually  and that's exactly what we're seeing now, the aftermath of a massive trade deficit. This aspect is never discussed instead democrats point to deregulation to blame republicans and republicans blame the democrats by their inability to fix it. It's a shame our supposedly democratic system can't address an actually simple to fix problem. 
 
If we would only have a reasoned discussion of the trade deficit we would soon realize that Warren Buffet's solution is the answer. He proposed a system in which exporters would be issued import certificates which would provide the right to importers to import goods. The certificates given to exporters would be equal to the amount in dollars that exporters export. Exporters could then sell these certificates on the open market at whatever the current price was which would be set by free market forces. In this way exporting would be incentivized while import would be discouraged thus closing the trade deficit. For too long we've let countries compete based on who can lower wages most instead of who can be most industrious.  
 
You may not agree with what I have to say about the trade deficit but at least you acknowledge that there has been no debate about it, it is important, and our collective attention deficit and the media's worship of ratings has prevented us from addressing issues that are much more important than the hateful arguments that dominate political coverage today.