Who is to blame for our current trials?

People have often spoke of the concept that the current administration is to blame for all of our current troubles. Many people view it that way and I feel that the least I could do is to try to set the record staight. What we must fight is not the Republican or Democratic Parties but rather the ideology behind those parties. Some call it Progressivism, others call it Liberalism, but the fact of the matter is that it is socialism. To say that one party got us into this mess is to gloss over the significant contributions to the mess by the other party, and to say that this president or that one encouraged it, is downright foolishness.
My answer to the question is this. WE the PEOPLE are to blame. WE elected the officials in Washington, despite their socialist views. WE created this mess by voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. WE COMPROMISED every thing that WE believed in the name of consensus. WE asked for the Government to bail us out and to give us the desires of our hearts, after all, what is wrong with being able to get every thing we ever wanted from the government.
Gerald Ford once said "Any government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Right now we are screaming about the government that has started to take our noticiable rights, but the crux of the issue is that by accepting the hand-outs from the federal government, since the New Deal, we have been giving them that power. We are to blame for the trials of our country