Why are Americans so persistently ignorant of the fundamental things that affect them most?

No one has ever been bankrupted by a few egalitarian/ socialist measures within the domain of reasonable taxation. Why allow yourselves to be bankrupted by a fraudulent, formerly conservative government that did absolutely nothing for the middle cl, the vast majority of Americans? How can anyone let their mind go so far via the right wing, Rush inspired, media so as to forego all common sense? Tax breaks for the wealthy- those most able to afford pay as you go taxation- verses the agenda of destroying the middle cl, THAT'S YOU, SCHMUCK- and exporting if not destroying any decent wage, blue collar jobs? Why are the young so eager to join the military? Even at such a far below common wage? Because they have been left nothing else. Why doesn't the self destructive, right wing own up to this reality?