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Yep, we're overworked, overstressed, underpaid, don't have time to be informed or do / learn how to do critical thinking.
Doesn't change the fact that we're astoundingly ignorant, and increasingly illiterate.
You've provided an explanation (which is not actually simpler, my single sentence summary of your points is), but that does not change the actual fact that 54% of American adults cannot read a children's story to their own kids, even if they had the time.
Combine that with short form social media addiction amongst children markedly reducing attention span and cognitive ability generally, and the actual reality on the ground is even worse.
If you want a practical, functional conversation geared toward solving the problem, you have to face these facts.
If you want a short lament about the state of society and its general anti intellectualism and ignorance, the person whose take you are calling shitty and thoughtless is actually a pretty concise and accurate remark.
Is it a shitty take to say 'Under Trump, trans people / latin immigrants / the poor are fucked'?
Does that require an in-depth explanation of how and why that statement is true to not be a shitty take?
... This overexplanation, this attitude that 'no you must make clear that you understand all the context before you can have an opinion' kind of attitude is precisely what turns off people who have short attention spans and don't have the time or are literally incapable of doing their own research.
It is the exact stereotype that Republicans have been successfully utilizing for decades against Democrats, that they're all stodgy elitists who talk down to anyone who is not as enlightened as them.
... Which is over half of adult Americans.
Keep running with it, you'll have the moral highground when the flood of economic and climactic disasters washes us all away, with no regard to how many times you can say 'i told you so' before you drown.
Mine was actually simpler, and is even simpler than yours...
I just then immediately expanded on that simple explanation, instead of leaving a lazy single line response like the OP. Because this is a place for actually discussing things, not just leaving a side shitty comment like it's Facebook. The OP I responded to did not even attempt to go beyond, instead going for the low hanging fruit of, "haha Americans dumb" and leaving it at that as of that added to the conversation in some way.