The Murican Peepul - permits this environment of massive duplicity to linger, apparently indefinitely.
You can't become alert, interested and ept overnight - and a few can ram through unConstitutional restraints on that same half-voting flock of consumers EZ. Just ramp up the jingoism and the slogans, as we have seen.
There can be no quick-fix; it's taken decades to sink this low on the awareness scale. The level of speech! in the populace and from the cabal and its supporters demonstrates what this level is today.
Believe these are the classical prerequisites for the loss of 'democracy' and the onset of Authoritarian regime: to er "ensure law n'order for your comfort and convenience at the mall".
Ugly is just a word,
Ashton