The biggest taboo in the USA is for the press and even conservative columnists to tell it straight . . .
ignorance runs rampant in the USA.
It gets worse every year with the population boom of illegal aliens and a high population birth from public school grads.
For politically correct reasons, rare is it that any commentator tell the truth--America is a highly ignorant society.
They've exchanged their mantra of not trusting anyone over thirty, to ignorance is bliss.
The problem is not the ignorance of the unschooled, but the ignorance of our college grads. Fweer and fewer yaking degrees in produtive fields, such as engineering and more and more in fields like psychology , journalism. and law.