Comment by ringaroundthetx

> Can't they just wake up and put their mental energy and money on something that actually make sense?

They put their money on problems that have a clear path of solving.

Americans cannot agree to use their money on other Americans who have different values than them, westernized social welfare systems occur in homogenous cultures.

In the US, the homogenous elite and majority power cannot agree to use their money on problems that affect a completely different culture in the lower classes. In continental governments such as the EU, you see the same thing.