I believe it. People are not interested in truth or fact. When I tell someone the House has funded this or that, people just roll their eyes at me. They do not care, this is the survivor generation and I mean plugged into Hollywood and not true survivor independence. I hear more about Hollywood than anything, with no idea what they are talking about.
They are not interested to hear this is the 18th shutdown. They are conditioned, perhaps by some epigenetic fluke of constant interment in government schools. The same schools that have denied them knowledge of how to succeed.
People seem to absorb uncritically what's in the atmosphere, i.e. the media smog.
People seem to have a habitual trust in government institutions and the media which, as you say, is likely the result of childhood institutionalization.
“They” will never survive what is coming and for the reassons that you site. You need to leave the places where these people infest. It will be ground zero.