Ignorance in Action

In the entirety of U.S. history, where does Goethe’s quote here best apply?

Most Americans would agree that it’s the behavior of Trump supporters post the 2020 election, their clinging to the baseless claim that the election was rigged, and the mindless hatred they feel for the rest of the country’s people as the “woke, radical left.”

Another solid answer is our population’s ignoring the challenges beset upon us by global warming.  As the late Kurt Vonnegut put it, when he saw what was happening shortly before his death, “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.”