If I can add on one more thing--the total lack of interest in the NSA thing--which should be a cause for rioting in the streets--tells me things are going to get way worse before they ever get better.
If that draws a yawn of course something like Wall St. is a non-starter.
Then again, let's not leave out how the media has abandoned all pretense of keeping our gov't honest (on the national level at least--on the local level, strangely, it's still happening).