Yes, consumers are stupid, but ignorance is bliss and they like it this way. Put all the pro capital punishment people into a room and ask them to vote on a law

Yes, consumers are stupid, but ignorance is bliss and they like it this way. Put all the pro capital punishment people into a room and ask them to vote on a law requiring public executions in the town square and oh, no we don't want that, we like state sponsored murder to be behind closed doors, the children after all! Etc. It's a defect in our culture. We're babies. We don't like the reality of some of our choices, it causes cognitive dissonance, so we just white wash reality, and bad mouth the people who try to point to reality, just to coddle the ignorant. And now they don't have to think about it, AND OH MY GOD IT'S ALL SO MUCH BETTER WITH BACON!