Despite civic ignorance, overwhelming majorities are grateful (86%) and proud (79%) to be Americans. Most also believe America is a land of opportunity (61%), and even more believe the American Dream (74%) is available to them personally.
There's an element of self control to sticking to values. I've seen people proclaim like they're going to boycott EA because of various reasons, but then some shiny new game comes out and those values fall.
Maybe they never really had he values in the first place.
A lot of Linux works out of the box now. If folks started selling preconfigured Linux machines like you can buy for windows, that's all most people need. Valve is following a good strategy
The megacorp I work for is frothing at the mouth to replace people with AI. Most of leadership doesn't know anything about programming, but still feel confident to talk about it.
Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like "block ads". They just take whatever fuckery they get
Republicans are conservatives, authoritarians, the most important thing for them is adherence to the group. If they valued anything else more, they wouldn't be Republicans.
The US has always fallen well short of its stated ideals. Many people who have national pride don't know shit about fuck. Don't want to talk about racism. Don't want to talk about the problems of capitalism.
My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it's a big multiplier on their incompetence.