I just think that in examples like the Middle East, if you randomly walked up to random Americans and asked them what the conflicts in the Middle East are about, too large of a majority of them could not adequately describe hardly any of it.

This is why I suggested that complex stories/incidents really need to be told in ways average Americans can understand such stories.

For example, how many Americans know what a "Kibbutz" is? Hell, even though I had an idea of what one was, I still had to look it up to get a full understanding. 

Now, the saddest part of all this is that in the past, mostly so anyway, I think it was more common for those who had a fuller grasp of these complex stories to be more truthful than in our modern times.  What I mean is, that although fabrications and misinformation have always been present, in today's climate, it seems to be even more so, which includes the added comments of the true gadflies out there that movements like  MAGA have given them a platform to promote even more lies and false information. 

An illustration of this is that I just saw where one of the Republican presidential candidates sat down with Alex Jones.  Now, really, does anyone think that in past times a presidential candidate would have sat down with a person like Alex Jones, especially with a person with the views of someone like Jones?  I mean, how have we gotten to a stage where a supposed presidential candidate would sit down with a person who has denied one of the worst school shootings of children ever happened?