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Our educational system isn't the best and there's an entire political party dedicated to spreading and believing falsehoods.
But probably the bigger factors are media consolidation and time. By the former, I mean virtually every major media outlet is owned by some massive corporation, and these media outlets collectively determine what ideas are to be presented as "plausible" and "serious", and which are not.
By the latter, I mean that most people who are struggling to make ends meet and spend 40+ hours working a week have too many other things to worry about to really invest their time in digging deep into our country's (innumerable) political issues. And, due to the above, a lot of the information out there is straight-up bad, and most of the rest presents only a limited range of solutions.