I am disgusted to my fucking core about the state of this country.

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58. There's also a sizable number of people who are Dem or lean Dem who don't vote.

They can't be bothered to give the least amount of attention to getting a ballot and voting. So I do believe that there is plenty of blame to go around. I had a discussion today with a woman who was upper middle class who wanted to talk about the student loan issue. She knew nothing about the program except for what she hears from the major media. Since I do know quite a bit about the program having administered it at a public university, and she seemed very open to listening to me, I taught her a few basics about it. Still, she kept saying, "but why are we hearing that all these student loans are going to be forgiven." I tried to correct her that not everyone is going to be eligible for the program and told her just the basics such as how the program is not "new", that it was started when Bush was in office in 2007. The look on her face was incredulous. She thought that this program had been designed by Biden himself.

At the end of our conversation when I told her that the media doesn't delve into all the specifics and that all she had to do was go on the government website and do a bit of reading her response was, "I'm not going to do that. I shouldn't have to do that and neither should the students. It's up to the media outlets to give us all the information."

So, how do you not get disgusted with Americans when they can't be bothered with doing a bit of research instead of thinking it's the media who is supposed to inform them of all the details? As an aside, this woman I know for a fact is college educated and about 70 and upper middle class. The level of ignorance in this country can be gut wrenching.