Creationism and Ignorance

[Anomalocaris]

Both. The US has a lot of willfully ignorant and stupid people. Take a look at the following Bonnie and Clyde had back in the day. How is it that people who were robbing banks and murdering people gained a following? It's a good thing they weren't throwing money changers out of the local temple, or they'd be saints by now.

Every culture has a lot of willfully ignorant people.  The difference is other culture rightfully attach shame to it.  But in the US the political fraction that stole credibility by wrapping itself in the flag then further tries to aggrandize itself by tying the American national identity to it so as to secure the willfully ignorant to its own political fortunes.