Americans are brainwashed and half of them are brain dead.........
Your average Joe and his family are disenfranchised from politics and the political process. What do they know? (or care?) They bring home their paychecks, pay their bills (barely), and sit down to watch TV. The media is sooo slick today that it tells them whatever it wants.
People are used to being lied to, to being bamboozled by the media. EVERYTHING seems out of their hands. They can't even figure it out for themselves, let alone remember what last election's promises were about.