Why don't we care?

I think Americans are in great danger of losing our country from within. While we talk a lot about patriotism, we don't really seem to worry about the lack of it. For instance, many of our congressmen have proven themselves to be completely self-serving, partisan and unpatriotic. They attack the president; they refuse to pass legislation that the majority of Americans want; they collect huge salaries while trying to undermine the man we chose to run the country. But we turn a deaf ear and blind eye to this treachery. We permit ever-increasing slurs and the most disrespectful lies ever directed against a national leader. George Bush deliberately lied us into a war which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans, and the maiming of many thousands more. Yet he is living a life of privilege in Texas, joyfully opening a new library which we will pay to maintain,  and getting off scot-free from crimes against America. He belongs in prison but we do not pursue his well-deserved confinement. The same is true of his co-conspirators: Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, and criminal of criminals, Dick Cheney. Not only do we not go after Cheney for war crimes, but our news media is nothing less than congratulatory when he replaces his black heart with a new one that he probably wasn't even entitled to.  Instead of reminding us that Condoleeza's incompetence resulted in America's greatest homeland tragedy, our networks promote her book and feature her sitting at a grand piano. One could argue that these are the signs of a forgiving nation. I would pose that they are the warning signals of a laissez-faire country that is more and more letting traitorous politicians get away with inuring us to what could become a disastrous manipulation.