If 32 million people in the US are illiterate and another 15 million are illiterate in English only we should add the intellectually deficient functional illiterates which is x million (x for non college grads and severely ignorant around 25%) An additional number of people persuaded by click bait and dubious sources round out the various versions of the illiterate as well as the medically illiterate.
This is almost half the country.

No wonder the few who voted went nearly half for Trump. He is one of them.

Vigilance is the cost to maintain a democratic republic or a socialist democracy.

Pay up smart America or lose it all.