Political ignorance
I had no idea that the American people know as little about politics, public policy and government as they do (which is to say that I was ignorant of the ignorance). Americans are evidently not a politically well-informed people. But as Ilya Somin points out in the essay at the link, it’s not rational to expect them to be well-informed. Our Government is now so large and complex that people couldn’t keep up with it even if they wanted to.
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