The issue of the public option which is the current debate, you say the people are ignorant, I call them dumb. Yeah, it's the medias job to report the fallacies in what's being misrepresented but it's the duty of the individual to decipher the information granted to them.  The information is out there if you yourself want to learn "the truth" but individuals choose to stay ignorant of those facts which in turn in my opinion is STUPIDITY, for not wanting to seek the truth.

Now one can make the argument, how do you find "the truth" when lots of materials are partisan. Well, in a perfect world a person would realize what's partisan and what's not. But wait, we live in a society today that doesn't care about finding the facts, If Glenn Beck told me, it must be true. If Keith Olbermann said it, I must repeat. Studies have shown over the decades Americans in essence have gotten dumber in the sense that they don't have interests in affairs other than American Idol and Entertainment Tonight.