Insight: The average person can't comprehend he complexities of our times to be able to make a reasoned decision on what governs them.
That's why there is an education gap.
I don't have a solution.
But I think that this is the problem of continuing with democracy in its current form to determine our leaders.
Morality, criminality, rights and governance are all abstractions.
There isn't much tangible in these concepts.
If you have not been trained to build models in your mind using these abstractions you cannot use them to make decisions.
You default to your gut.
To intuition.
To the tangible examples.
To the anecdotes.
America is just a bunch of humans.
Not bad.
Not good.
Just trying to make sense of it all.
And it is getting harder and harder every 4 years.