Other than your first sentence, I think we can safely say the politics sub forum is not a fair refection of Society, its hard to argue against your other points.
We are in the shit for a multitude of reasons and yes, the book stops with the current ruling Party because they are the only ones who can do anything about it..
I just havn't seen enough concrete proposals from the Opposition that they have workable solutions to turn things around.
Obviously time will tell and I will be happy to be proved wrong if there are substantial changes for the better.