People would rather point at other countries and virtue signal about how bad they are rather than care about what's happening in their own country. Couple that

People would rather point at other countries and virtue signal about how bad they are rather than care about what's happening in their own country. Couple that with brain dead nationalism about how the US is the best despite the fact that we're very much behind in many areas and it's not surprising that so many Americans blindly allow their own government to do so many outrageous things.