Our self-absorption and pre-occupation with sports and entertainment and vacations and Facebook and all manner of unproductive diversions has its price. The price is failure to pay attention to the things that are important to our present and future, including the leaders we elect.
Here is one example of the result of the ignorance of who we elect to office: A president who is a proponent of a hostile religion, who favors the culture of third world nations, and maintains a palpable disdain for our own culture and nation; the most anti-Christian president this nation has ever elected. The electorate was asleep at the wheel with this one...