What do you think is the percentage of non-woke normals who know what “Coward Piven” is, or to what the same refers?
In this day and age, ignorance, acedia, anhedonia (such as lack of motivation or interest in doing what is necessary to taste true freedom or experience true justice or becoming truly knowledgeable about truly important things), these and other similar traits seem so deeply lodged in the hearts, minds, souls of do many of our fellow citizens. As obstacles to MAGA go, they must be among the most imposing.
I know I was taught to think and established an inquiring mind; I fear you may be correct: it is now easier to let others do your thinking. Of course the elite are sending their kids to schools that are supposedly teaching them to think; if Harvard economists are any indication, that is a failure also.
AOC graduated from Boston Univ and studied economics - knows nothing about that or much of anything else. I graduated from BU in '66 and told them at that time that they had failed to educate me.
The beat goes on. OTOH, many here on FR seem able to seek out answers - as you imply, there must be a concerned remnant.