HALF our COUNTRY are IDIOTS OR EVIL!
We are an intellectually lazy nation with way too many citizens willing to believe anything that comes out of pop culture (including the news media). If Einstein were alive and wrote something scientifically profound in a non-mainstream publication the public would not give it any credit and would instead preferentially believe what was said by a transgender high school science teacher who was on CNN. AND, they would think of themselves as smarter and better informed.