Damn, sounds familiar

"The inability to identify with concrete issues resulted in the retreat from politics; the increasing complexity of aMERICAN LIFE MADE SUCH CONCRETE ISSUES INCREASINGLY HARD TO FIND AND MORE IMPORTANT, CREATED A CRIPPLING DISCREPANCY BETWEEN CURRENT POLITICAL Needs and the traditional political machinery. That discrepancy made the traditional actions and pronouncements of political leaders seem increasingly irrelevant to what people cared most about."