....your average person simply cannot believe or rationalize that the world leaders and "entities in positions of power and influence" are psychopathic murderers and anti-human tyrants. "Oh c'mon man...they wouldn't do that!" is the standard thinking. Aside from that, most are too wrapped up and consumed with holding down a job, paying the mortgage, etc., and lack a reasonable world view and perspective on current events.
SOLUTION: People are going to have to be SHOWN evidence of what's going on behind the curtain....hard grueling gut-wrenching evidence. Plenty of evidence exists. Forget about whether people can handle it or not. We are at the cliff and it's time to shock people out of their slumber before it's too late.
Native born Americans simply do not have a point of reference to these things. Aside from the boiling frog conditioning we've endured...there has been no invasion of our shores in our lifetime. Atrocities only happen to 'other people'. Political realities have been hidden.
Why some of us can see through the fog and others can't, I don't know. But I myself have to make a concerted effort to imagine my home being bombed, being dragged off to an interment camp, watching loved ones executed. Sometimes it's like teetering on the edge of madness.