Cable News Clips

By the time the political illiterates and politically indifferent chronically suffer by learning the hard way, it's still likely that they're in the non-voter population that's been too f'n lazy to engage for the sake of their families' futures, and too late for adequate, constructive change for the rest of us.

It could also be that there is a bigger poverty class than we know.
Poverty breeds fear, ignorance, desperation and despair in people who can't trust government or institutions to remediate their lives, so it could be a downward spiral (caused by a fascist corporate economy) of collectively "learned helplessness."