[The bigger and more irresponsible government gets, the less the average citizen seems to pay attention to it.]
It is a defense mechanism. It is easier to live in denial than to except reality and try to do something about it. This is truly a case of ignorance is bliss. I have often told my husband it would be much easier to be like many of our friends and just not know better, just believe the crap the media and politicians are spewing. Friends openly tell me all the time that they don’t want to discuss politics, they just don’t care, etc. It is much easier just to pretend the Gov’t has their best interests in mind—that the Gov’t is a force for good.
Except that they are not very blissful. They just refuse to place the blame where it belongs.