That ' s the stereotype , but unfortunately many many people couldn ' t care less if they tried . If it doesn ' t have a very visible , and very negative effect on their daily life , they won ' t care . It ' s amazing to me how few people I talk to that don ' t know the first thing about politics and don ' t care to learn . Unless someone tells these people how they should feel , they aren ' t going to form their own opinions . This is where the biggest complaints about our media come from , because they have so much influence . A lot of people will take what the media says at face value , true , misleading , false , or otherwise . It ' s a pretty sad state of affairs , but people are simply much less interested in this sort of stuff than they should be .