Electorate Responsible for Government Impasse

It seems that our president nowadays can do nothing without reaping scathing criticism from one side or the other. The more he tries to work with Republicans, the more they attack him, without showing any of the give and take that our political process needs to function in this country. If he lays out plans in accordance with his own political perspective on things (his recent jobs bill and his current $3 trillion debt reduction plan), the pundits rip him for pushing unrealistic proposals just to better position himself politically for next year. His own party chastises him for trying to at least get SOMETHING done by reaching consensus with a very intransigent and irresponsible political opposition and is beginning to move in the direction of abandoning him in favor of an potential alternate candidate (namely Hillary Clinton, who has repeatedly and vehemently stated that she isn't at all interested).

But from where I'm standing, President Obama is the reasonable, sane element in our political system working to promote the best interests of the country and its people; the other parts are what needs to be fixed. However, seeing that the American people collectively don't seem to "get it", they'll continue, I suppose, to lambaste Republicans in Congress in the public opinion polls while at the same time keep voting for them over and over again at the election polls. And since the GOP's refusal to work to any reasonable degree with the duly elected president keeps being rewarded by voters, why then would they ever consider changing? If you are rewarded for your behavior, good or bad it may be, you're going to repeat it.

A lazy, easily manipulated electorate will get what it deserves: a mediocre, dysfunctional government. And we currently are suffering from both. As far as I'm concerned regarding today's political impasse and dysfunction, the politicians themselves aren't the main problem, regardless of what the "experts" are saying: it's the ELECTORATE!