We may be suffering..................

.......................... from a lack of inculcation:

 In his sixties, Adams would say that vigilance in civic life had been inculcated in him at an early age.  "Let the people keep a watchful eye over the conduct of their rulers," he explained, "for we are told that great men are not all times wise.  It would be indeed a wonder if in any age or country they were always honest."

-Stacy Schiff,  The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams