If that’s even remotely true, then I can see how things have turned out the way they have. A populous that understands damn near nothing about the world around them is simply not prepared to fight the ever increasing amount of disinformation and scapegoating thrown at them by those with malicious motives

It’s worse than it sounds.

Of the people who can name the three branches of government, even fewer actually understand how they work.

33% of people have an IQ lower than 90. 100 is the average. The average human is already pretty stupid.