I hate to sound so cynical, but most people are ignorant and stupid. It's just a sad fact of life. They want what they want, and they want it now, and they don't want to have to do any thinking about it. We are getting lazier and lazier, fatter and fatter, and more and more stupid every day.
Lazier is obviously a bad thing. But what is really bad is the number of people who believe what they want to believe rather than follow truth and evidence of truth. Because they believe what they want to believe. Which makes them perfect sheeple for those wanting to lead them. Then you get the hordes of sheeple, and tools, who post on this board, and simply look for talking points that they like and that is their truth. It is their truth, and they are so ignorant that those who wrote down those talking points become the gods who lead the sheeple around by their nose. And the sheeple like it.