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From one foreigner to another, I believe you are overthinking it.From The Guardian here:
What is tragic for America is the number of fellow-Americans who happen to believe, still, that a hapless ex-PotUS (Trump) is right. Or Right, whichever does not matter. From where devolves such a belief?
Woeful ignorance of a large part of the American public that have had insufficient instruction in Civics. Which is a course in how democracy works, not a lesson in impractical and provincial Political Thinking/Belief ... or whatever. Civics, though a "noun", behaves like a "verb". It is the work necessary to assure that a democracy is fair, independent, and competent.
Just what is "Civics" (capital "C" is important)! It's "short" definition goes like this: "The study of the rights and duties of citizenship."
And how do we know what those "rights and duties are"? Well, that question was posed and answered in a study-report by the title of "2018 Civics Framework", which is the handiwork of a select group of people explained in Chapter 3 (excerpt) and its purpose explained:
Yes, citizenship is not just an individual right of all citizens. It is also a "duty" that we learn in order to assure (and participate) in the development of our rights as citizens. And not just wait for someone to show-up, run for office, and tell us what our rights are and why/how they might evolve.
Which implies a considerable amount of work. And, to my mind, requires a "standing committee" of select-individuals to pursue that goal. With an in-depth report now-and-then about when/where/how or why our "democracy" needs to evolve.
Meaning quite simply this: That "committee" must come alive and perform (in a politically neutral fashion) the studies so essential to understanding truly what our democracy is doing and how it should be done ...
The US citizens has been subjects of voter suppression policies for decades. They also have 2 parties that neither really stands for any clear direction, which off course means that they can end up anywhere on any issue. The public can never know exactly what they are voting for. Also partiality is institutionalized in the justice system.
Hence they do not trust anything the government or federal institutions says.
It really isn't that strange. Anything else would be strange…