Which clearly illustrates the problem we're up against. These dimwits don't have the slightest idea of how the world works. They think they can increase the oil supply by throwing a temper tantrum. That was the Sixties' solution to all problems, wasn't it?
Bingo.
We've got to accept the fact that most people are economically and politically completely ignorant. It's why, for the most part, politics has to be boiled down to very simple bite sized slogans that people can digest. Few people understand that the political debates we see in the media are really just the tip of the iceburg and underneath lie all sorts of ideological issues and partisan jockeying often related to some other entirely unrelated issue.
The left counts on this to push their agenda and couches their radical left ideology in simple populist ideas. While it is important for us to continue to educate the public properly, we simply have to realize human nature for what it is. People never change and many, perhaps most, just haven't much of a clue about how an economy works.
In any society, even the brightest, most people are followers and relatively ignorant of how the world around them functions in almost every way. Unfortunately, socialist/collectivist notions are like a drug, and it is extremely difficult to wean people off of them once they've been introduced into a populace. We need to do more than be right about issues, we need to better connect with the people and accept that, by and large, they will always be susceptible to demagoguery and leftist populism.