The fragmentation of our political system, with disillusioned voters looking to the margins for satisfaction, is there for all to see.
In the end, many became disillusioned and looked for a way out, a new study, "The Travelers: American Jihadists in Syria and Iraq," reported, on Tuesday.
If the past few years have shown anything, it's that disillusioned Americans are looking for bold promises, aggressive rhetoric, and vitality, not milquetoast centrists who spend a bunch of time inveighing against the national debt.
One reason people are so disillusioned is that they look at the big decisions and realise someone else is pulling the strings.
And disillusioned Brazilians are increasingly looking to free-market liberals, evangelical Christians, and rightwing populists.
To an increasingly disillusioned environmental movement, Keystone looks like a last chance.
They have transformed hundreds of lives, and inspire fierce loyalty among their users, but are no longer manufactured.The invention for which Mr Kamen is best known is the Segway Transporter, a gloriously over-engineered stand-up scooter that had the misfortune to emerge just after the dotcom crash in 2001, just as the disillusioned technology industry was looking for the next big thing.
It seemed like whenever they interviewed some craggy 45-year-old former Wehrmacht trooper about Stalingrad or wherever, he would always be sitting in some minimalist Berlin apartment, modern art in the background, his salt and pepper hair swept back and just generally looking cool, disillusioned and sophisticated in a turtleneck.
Agricultural land prices are rising fast, and have risen by around 50% since 2003, thanks to confidence in the industry's future and to rich-but-disillusioned City slickers looking for a slice of rural idyll to retire to, or at least to spend their weekends in.
The players even persuaded a few disillusioned fans to take another look.
