At first i thought it was just an acting. They cant be this stupid, but they should quit acting. Spoiler: Its no act. These people are really really stupid...
You have a lot of people who were born in the late 60s / early 70s and just want to have a good time. The culture in the 80s was all about ignoring reality and fuck all, just party. Kind of like the 60s and 70s, but in the 60s and 70s people partied while doing political action. In the 80s they dropped the political action and just kept the partying. The people who were born in the late 70s and early 80s (who grew up in the 90s) are more critical IMO, they're realists. The people born in the 90s who grew up in 00's are similar in a lot of respects but tend to not be as critical as those 10 years older.
The people who control the USA now, grew up in the 80s. A complete fucking waste of a generation. We'll have to spend the next 30 years trying to undo all the terrible shit they're doing -- if it will even be possible...