People at the checkout look at me like I have 3 heads... like I'm some kind of nut job. (I do live in CT, though, as I said in my previous post)
I think you nailed it - if the media doesn't tell them to care, they don't care.
I would applaud you. I am disgusted that as an American I can no longer afford to eat a steak because the do-gooders think they’re doing good by taking cattle feed and stuffing it in our cars and lawn mowers! Because the same do-gooders want to stop fracking, off-shore drilling and exploring/drilling for oil in the damned glorious tundra! I walk around the supermarket mumbling “you have got to be fracking joking!!!” No one is talking about the food prices and the causes. No 20/20 and 60 minutes to be found on anything that is actually wrong or corrupt in this country.