Don't blame Trump. We the people are the problem.

David Ignatius is correct in stating Trump will make our country worse (Washington Post 3-11-16), but using Fukuyama’s example of the US Forest Service to highlight the consequences of “conflicting political mandates and poor management” missed the most egregious and clarifying example.  Fukuyama assessed “Medicare and Medicaid“as “22% of federal budget” but U.S. policy makers refer to it as ‘Health Care’.   The true basis of ‘health care’ is prevention.  Our government created ‘Med’ this and ‘Med’ that -and then label it “Health Care”.   We the people allow it to do the same thing with national security and foreign policy.  We call our military the “Department of Defense” but use it primarily for offensive uses.  Uses that create more enemies than we kill.  Mountains of tax dollars are persistently devoted to expensive and preventable consequences (war, terrorism, disease) instead of investing in root causes in the first place.  And ‘we the people’ keep electing and supporting candidates that offer nothing different.   If our nation’s problem is dysfunctional government, Trump isn’t really to blame.  We are.