The basic issue in the United States and elsewhere is not so much that the people are "too conservative" or "too liberal". The problem, rather, is that almost no one will think for themselves. The spires of noble achievement are forever off limits to those who merely copy, borrow, steal, rearrange, retaliate, react, "game the system", etc. 

The advertising industry, by manufacturing artificial desires and artificially inflating the cost of living, arrests the personal and intellectual development of what ought to be, by now, the living gods of the future.