this is a problem of (lack of) political consciousness.

a ruling class that does not care, an apathetic voter turnout, and corporate controlled mass media keeping the public muddled and mired in trivia.

then what happens is people get too lazy to look deeply and deliberately at the forces that govern them, and that fact is turned into profit for the few..

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~