A major problem is that the dumbest and least educated people on the planet think that they are as intelligent as the smartest and most educated people on the planet.
What I need you guys to understand is that while yes the education system in the U.S. is a mess, lack of education isn't the reason for the surge in anti-intellectualism.
The information they seek is at their fingertips and they intentionally choose to ignore it.
These are people who specifically resent experts and get a dopamine hit out of feeling like they know something that most other people don't.
"You really think we went to the moon? ha you're a sheep"
It's emotional, not logical.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200k/year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
It must be miserable to genuinely think scientists, historians, and journalists spent their entire lives lying to you, but a reality TV celebrity with decades of documented fraud is your sole source of truth.
Most people are not angry enough about forced car dependency for me personally. Like our cities are designed so you basically have to own expensive and dangerous heavy machinery and you're not mad??