I think the answer to that is pretty scary. In that, given the problems confronting us, none of these people have the slightest clue as to how to solve them. That's kind of the dirty little secret. And indeed, some of them, save divine intervention, are not going to be solved. There is no solution to the problem of Radical Islam sort of all out war, and even among the non-radical populations, there is a conflict that a few position points is not going to bridge. The current financial crisis - which has many aspects and layers, but lets just take one - that a substantial number of people have bought houses that are in fact, worth less than they paid for them, and that the price, artificially inflated over a period of ten years, is now dropping, has no 'sound bite' solution. That the staggering increase in demand for oil on a world wide basis, coupled as it is to an ever decreasing amount of a finite resource is not sustainable, and the only path seems to be one where energy is going to be beyond the ability of most people to afford in pretty short order has no easy solution either. So, they talk about 'family values' something that of course, they have no power over in the first place.
